Die Bakchantinnen
Music by Egon Wellesz
Die Bakchantinnen, Op. 44, is a 1931 German-language opera by Egon Wellesz to a libretto by the composer after Euripides' play The Bacchae. Wellesz explicitly saw the figure of Dionysos, who gathers the people behind him with "illusion" and drives them to madness, as a parallel to the political seducers of his time. His opera was a clear warning against the delusion and seduction by Hitler and his followers.
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About the Composer
Egon Joseph Wellesz, CBE, FBA (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.
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Other Operas by Egon Wellesz
- Die Prinzessin Girnara (1921)
- Die Opferung des Gefangenen (1926)