Dance-opera by Pina Bausch
Music Christoph Willibald Gluck
Musical Direction Janos Kulka
Director and Choreographer Pina Bausch
Collaboration Hans Pop
Set and Costume Design Light Rolf Borzik
Choirs Werner Wilke
Technical Direction Rolf Bachmann
Love
Orpheus
Singer Lois White
Dancer Dominique Mercy
Death
Eurydice
Singer Ingeborg Krüger
Dancer Malou Airaudo
Youth
Armor
Singer Elena Bajew
Dancer Vivienne Newport / Marlis Alt
Grief
Marlis Alt, Pedro Mascarello Bisch, Hiltrud Blanck, Tjitske Broersma? Sue Cooper, Michael Diekamp, Laszlo Fenyves, Colleen Finneran, Lajos Horvath, Margaret Huggenberger, Stephanie Macoun, Yolanda Meier, Jean Mindo (Jan Minarik), Vivienne Newport, Barbara Passow, Monika Wacker, Barry Wilkinson;
Power
Marlis Alt, Pedro Mascarello Bisch, Hiltrud Blanck, Tjitske Broersma?, Sue Cooper, Michael Diekamp, Laszlo Fenyves, Colleen Finneran, Margaret Huggenberger, Stephanie Macoun, Yolanda Meier, Jean Mindo (Jan Minarik), Vivienne Newport, Barbara Passow, Heinz Samm, Monika Wacker
Peace
Marlis Alt, Pedro Mascarello Bisch, Hiltrud Blanck, Tjitske Broersma , Sue Cooper, Michael Diekamp, Laszlo, Fenyves, Colleen Finneran, Lajos Horvath, Margaret Huggenberger, Stephani Macoun , Yolanda Meier, Jean Mindo (Jan Minarik), Vivienne Newport, Barbara Passow, Monika Sagon, Heinz Samm, Monika Wacker, Barry Wilkinson
Dying
Marlis Alt, Pedro Bisch, Hiltrud Blanck, Tjitske Broersma?, Sue Cooper, Michael Diekamp, Laszlo Fenyves, Colleen Fin neran, Lajos Horvath, Margaret Huggenberger, Stephanie Macoun, Yolanda Meier, Jean Mindo (Jan Minarik), Vivienne Newport, Barbara Passow, Heinz Samm, Monika Wacker, Barry Wilkinson
Premiere 23 Mai 1975 Opera House Wuppertal
International engagements /Tours
1993 Paris; 1994 Genoa; 2008 Epidaure; Düsseldorf