Excerpts from The Bride of Dionysus (1907-1918)
Robert Calverley Trevelyan (libretto)

Act 1, Prelude Orchestra
Act 1, Scene 1 Ariadne, Phaedra, Theseus, King Minos, Chorus
Act 2, Part 1, Scenes 6 & 7 Ariadne, Theseus
Act 2, Part 2, Opening Orchestra
Act 2, Part 2, Scenes 10, 11 & 13 Orchestra, Theseus, Phaedra
Act 3, Part 1, Scenes 1 & 5 Phaedra, Chorus
Act 3, Part 2, Scene 6 Chromis
Act 3, Part 2, Scene 7 Ariadne
Act 3, Part 2, Scene 9 & Finale Dionysus, Ariadne, Chorus

Sally Silver (soprano)
Yvonne Fontane (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Johnston (tenor)
Michael Bundy (baritone)

Belfast Philharmonic Choir
Christopher Bell (Choir Master)

ULSTER ORCHESTRA
David Adams (leader)
George Vass (conductor)

Recorded: Ulster Hall, Belfast, 28-31 May 2009

World premiere recording

Download opera libretto (131kB)

CDLX 7241

“... music which is well worth hearing, some of it ... touched by genius, and piqued our curiosity to give the complete opera a chance to prove itself. Glyndebourne, isn’t 70 years long enough of a delay?” Calum MacDonald, International Record Review, April 2010