Alkestis

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Production First performed Venues Companies
Alcesta
The Cocktail Party Newman Rooms (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England) Oriel College, University of Oxford, St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Alkestis Barnard College, New York
Alcestis
Alcesti Centro Sperimentale del Teatro
Alkestis unknown venue (Holland)
Alcestis private tennis court near Morley College (London, Greater London, England)
Seven choruses from Alcestis
Alcestis: a Poetic Drama
The Drunken Sisters
Alkestis Drill Hall (London, Greater London, England) IJTS Workshop
Alcestis (1539 - 1542) 1539 Collège de Guyenne (Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France) Collège de Guyenne
Alceste, ou La Fidélité (1606) 1606 Chateau Vallon (France)
Admeto (1634) 1634 unknown venue (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
L'Alceste (1647) 1647 unknown venue (Ancona, The Marches, Italy)
L'Antigona delusa da Alceste (1660) 1660 Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
La fedeltà di Alceste (1661) 1661 unknown venue (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Alcesti o sia L'amor sincero (1665) 1665 unknown venue (Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide (1674) 1674 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
L'Alceste (1679) 1679 Theatre of Hanover (Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Apollo in Tessaglia (1679) 1679 Teatro Formagliari (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Alceste (1680) 1680 Theater am Gänsemarkt (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
L'Alceste (1681) 1681 Theatre of Hanover (Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Alceste (1693) 1693 Opernhaus am Brühl (Leipzig, Saxony, Germany)
Alceste (1697) 1697 Theater am Gänsemarkt (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
L'Alceste (1700) 1700 unknown venue (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Alceste (1718) 1718 Hoftheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Die getreue Alceste (1719) 1719 Theater von Hamburg (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
Admeto, re di Tessaglia (1727 - 1728) 1727 King's Theatre in the Haymarket (London, Greater London, England) Royal Academy of Music
Admeto, re di Tessaglia (1729) 1729 Herzogliches Hoftheater (Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Le nozze d'Admete e d'Alceste (1760) 1760 Hoftheater (Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Admeto ed Alceste (1761) 1761 Herzogliches Theater (Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Admeto e Alceste (1764) 1764 Teatro di via della Pergola (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Alceste (1767) 1767 Burgtheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Alceste (1768) 1768 Regio Ducal Teatro (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Cantata a tre voci (1768) 1768 Teatro S. Carlo (Naples, Campania, Italy)
Gli sconcerti d' amore (1769) 1769 unknown venue (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
L'eroico amor d'Alceste sposa d'Admeto re di Tessaglia (1773) 1773 Teatro S. Samuele (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Alceste (1773) 1773 Hoftheater (Weimar, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Il ratto d' Alceste ovvero Il trionfo d' Alcide (1773) 1773
Alceste (1774) 1774 Kongelige Teater (Copenhagen, Region Hovedstaden, Denmark)
Alceste e Admeto (1775) 1775 Teatro S. Cecilia (Palermo, Sicily, Italy)
Edward and Eleonora (1775) 1775 Theatre Royal (London, Greater London, England)
Alceste e Admeto (1776) 1776 Regio Teatro (Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
Alceste (1776) 1776 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Alceste (1777) 1777 unknown venue (Padova, Veneto, Italy)
L'Alceste (1778) 1778 Teatro di Corte (Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Alceste (1779) 1779 unknown venue (Naples, Campania, Italy)
Alceste o Il trionfo dell'amor coniugale / Alceste: or, The Triumph of Conjugal Love (1781) 1781 King's Theatre in the Haymarket (London, Greater London, England)
La discesa d'Ercole nei campi elisi o Admeto e Alceste (1783) 1783 Teatro di via della Pergola (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Script Year Contributors
A Mutual Flame Daryl Hine
Alceste Hippolyte Lucas
Alceste (1767) 1767 Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714-1795)
Alceste (1767) 1767 Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714-1795), Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet (1716-1786)
Alceste (1773) 1773 Anton Schweitzer (1735-1787), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)
Alceste, ou La Fidélité Alexandré Hardy
Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide Philippe Quinault (1635-1688)
Alcesti Francesca Nenci
Alcesti Antonio Garzya
Alcesti Eugenio della Valle
Alcesti Ettore Romagnoli
Alcesti Benedetto Marzullo
Alcesti Dalila Curiazi
Alcestis Robert Wilson
Alcestis André Bonnard
Alcestis Richard Aldington
Alcestis Henry Spicer
Alcestis Gilbert Murray (1866-1975)
Alcestis Philip Vellacott
Alcestis William Arrowsmith
Alcestis Ted Hughes
Alcestis Mary-Kay Gamel
Alcestis Dudley Fitts, Robert S. Fitzgerald
Alcestis Ford Madox Ford
Alcestis Peter Watts
Alcestis Daryl Hine
Alcestis Francis Hubback
Alcestis Gerald Warre Cornish
Alcestis (1556) 1556 George Buchanan
Alcestis Barcinonensis
Alcestis: A Dramatic Poem (1879) 1879 John Todhunter
Alcestis: The Original Strong-Minded Woman Francis [Frank] Talfourd
Alkestis Bolesław Karpiński
Alkestis Hjalmar Gullberg
Alkestis J. Michael Walton
Alkestis Thrasyvoulos Stavrou
Alkestis Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Alkestis Don Mamouney, Adam Hatzimanolis
Alkestis Konstantinos Christomanos, Ilias Voutieridis
Alkestis Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Alkestis Alex. Philadelpheus
Alkestis Anne Carson
Alkestis Georges Rivollet
Alkestis Kurt Steinmann
Alkistis Panagis Lekatsas
Alkistis Aimilia Ktena
Edufa Efua Sutherland
Edward and Eleonora James Thomson
The Alcestiad; or, A Life in the Sun Thornton Wilder
The Ally Way Marianne McDonald
Source Date Format Held at APGRD
(Dis)placing Classical Greek Theatre 1999 Book library
53 years on, another Alcestis 2000 Letter to the editor archive
A century of English ritual 1982 Newspaper cutting archive
A conversation with Thouli Misirloglou about “Mount Olympus” Print-out archive
A Greek chorus of lyrical lament 2000 Newspaper article archive
A Greek week 1958 Photocopy archive
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play 1983 Souvenir programme archive
A Life's Worth Measured in APT's 'Alcestis' Print-out archive
A performance of the Alcestis of Euripides by ladies at Queen's College, Harley Street 1886 Image archive
A review of “Mount Olympus” 2015 Print-out archive
A Short History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society 1955 Photocopy archive
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Book library
Admeto - audio recording of opera on CD 1998 CD archive
Advertisement for Alcestis - South Villa, Regent's Park 1910 Print-out archive
Advertising Flyer - Alkestis 2008 2008 Advertisement archive
Agamemnon 1958 Programme archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 2005 Book library
Akademischen Gymnasium Wien, Das 1982 Article archive
Alas poor theatre critic 2000 Newspaper article archive
Alceste 1994 Programme archive
Alceste 2000 Programme archive
Alceste 2001 Print-out archive
Alceste (Gluck) - audio recording on CD 1995 CD archive
Alceste (Schweitzer) - audio recording on CD 2001 CD archive
Alceste - audio recording of opera - CD 1992 CD archive
Alceste: une tragédie d'Euripide en version originale 1991 Programme archive
Alcesti Programme archive
Alcesti - ticket 2016 Ticket archive
Alcesti - video recording of stage production 2004 Videotape archive
Alcestis 2008 Programme archive
Alcestis 2000 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 2008 Postcard archive
Alcestis 2008 Print-out archive
Alcestis 1926 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 1988 Videotape archive
Alcestis 2001 Script archive
Alcestis 1958 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 1954 Programme archive
Alcestis 2003 Print-out archive
Alcestis 1988 Programme archive
Alcestis 1950 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 1982 Programme archive
Alcestis 2000 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 1958 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 1999 Programme archive
Alcestis 2000 Audiotape archive
Alcestis 1991 Programme archive
Alcestis 2000 Photocopy archive
Alcestis 1979 Programme archive
Alcestis 1950 Programme archive
Published Contributors
(Dis)placing Classical Greek Theatre 1999 Savvas Patsalidis, Akis Sakellariou, Yoko Onizuka Chase, Theodoros Grammatas, Iakovos Kambanellis, Kenneth McLeish, Bernhard Reitz, Sara Soncini, Malgorzata Sugiera, Liana Theodoratou, Richard Jones, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Shimon Levy, Nurit Yaari, Marianne McDonald, Jeanette R. Malkin, Susan Hollis Merritt, Ioanna Roilou, Barnard Turner, Dave Williams, Steve E. Wilmer, Freddy Decreus, Erika Fischer-Lichte, John C. Green, Patrick Primavesi, James Diggle, Thalia Papadopoulou, Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, Jina Politi, J. Michael Walton, Evangelos Kritikakos, Aldo Tassi, Heiner O. Zimmermann, Anne Marie Allen, Rob K. Baum, Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou, Kiki Gounaridou, Jennifer Jones, Anthony R. Guneratne, Shani Hadassa
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Rosalie Carey
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 2005 Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Susanna Phillippo, Michael Ewans, Margaret Reynolds, Yopie Prins, J. Michael Walton, Lorna Hardwick, Massimo Fusillo, Dmitry Trubotshkin, Pierre Judet de la Combe, Anton Bierl, Helene Foley, Rush Rehm, Amanda Wrigley
Alkestis 1993 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption 1992 Bernhard Zimmermann
Benson and the Bensonians 1960 J. C. Trewin, Dorothy Green
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 1998 Christopher Stray
Cyprus Today, XLVII.3 (July - September 2009) 2009
Dionisis Fotopoulos - Scenografo 2002 Dionysis Fotopoulos
Dioniso: Annale della Fondazione INDA. Vol.1 (new series) 2002
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium 2004 Amanda Wrigley, David Wiles, Edith Hall, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Fiona Macintosh, Froma I. Zeitlin, Helene Foley, Katharine Worth, Kathleen Riley, Lorna Hardwick, Oliver Taplin, Pantelis Michelakis, Peter G. McC. Brown, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s 2009 Amanda Wrigley
Epidaurus. The Ancient Theater and the Performances 2004 Savas Gogos, Kostas Ch. Myris AKA Georgousopoulos
Gilbert Murray OM, 1866-1957 1987 Archibald Duncan Wilson
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 2005 Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh
Greek up North: a study of Northern Broadsides' productions of ancient drama 2014 Helen Eastman
History of Greek Play Production in American Colleges and Universities from 1881 to 1936 1938 Domis Edward Pluggé
I Libretti Italiani a Stampa dalle Origini al 1800. 7 vols 1990 Claudio Sartori
I Metafrase tou Archaiou Hellenikou Dramatos se Oles tis Glosses tou Kosmou [The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World] 1998 Elena Patrikiou, Platon Mavromoustakos
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World Theatre 1977 Martin Esslin (1918-2002)
Inszenierung der Antike: das Griechische Drama auf der Bühne der Neuzeit 1991 Hellmut Flashar
International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) 2005 Amanda Wrigley, Isobel Hurst, Theodore Ziolkowski
JACT Review. No.24 (Autumn 1998) 1998
Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Founder of French Opera 1973 R. H. F. Scott
Karolos Koun: Kanoume Theatro gia tin Psychi mas [Karolos Koun: We are Doing Theatre for our Soul] 1997 Karolos Koun (1908-1987), Thanassis Kastaniotis, Thanassis Niarchos
Liber Amicorum: Prof. Dr. Jaak van Schoor, Meester in Vele Kunsten
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production 1987 J. Michael Walton
Martha Graham: A Biography 1973 Don McDonagh
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000 2000 Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, Oliver Taplin, Diane Purkiss, Marianne McDonald, Margaret Reynolds, Ian Christie, Platon Mavromoustakos, Eva Stehlíková, Mae Smethurst, Olga Taxidou, David Gowen
Megaro Mousikis Athinon, Periodos Exormiseos 1992-1993: Kyklos Eleni 1993
Metatheatrika, 1985-95 1995 Savvas Patsalidis
Omnibus. Issue 43 (January 2002) 2002 Edith Hall, Lorna Hardwick
Only by Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray 2004 Paul Cornwell
Opera Magazine 2002 (vol. 53) 2002
Opera. Vol.54 no.5 (May 2003) 2003
Opera. Vol.54 no.6 (June 2003) 2003
Opera. Vol.54 no.7 (July 2003) 2003
OUDS: A Centenary History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1885-1985 1985 Humphrey Carpenter
Plays International. Vol.16.3 (December 2000 / January 2001) 2000
Plays International. Vol.17.9 (June / July 2002) 2002
Print-Out: Dance on Disc 2004
Reception Studies 2003 Lorna Hardwick
Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences: An Anthology of Adaptations and Interviews 2021 Melinda Powers
Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones 1999 Bernard Knox, Edith Hall, Gregory Hutchinson, Jasper Griffin, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Malcolm Heath, Martin L. West, Netta Zagagi, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Richard Stoneman, Robert Fowler, Stephanie West
Teatr Grecki i Polski 1984 Stefan Srebrny
Teatro Total: XXV Años de Teatro Griego en el I.E.S. Carlos III 2005 José Luis Navarro
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy 1997 Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Paul Cartledge, Simon Goldhill, Oliver Taplin, Edith Hall, Peter Burian, Fiona Macintosh
The Invention of Jane Harrison 2000 Mary Beard
The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison 2002 Annabel Robinson
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Volume 2 (E-Lom) 1997 Stanley Sadie
Title Format Date
A conversation with Thouli Misirloglou about “Mount Olympus” Print-out
A Life's Worth Measured in APT's 'Alcestis' Print-out
Alcesti Programme
Alkestis Poster
Alkestis - Original annotated cast list Cast list & credits
American Players Theatre's 'Alcestis' looks on the bright side of death - online review Print-out
APT's David Frank to bow out with a story of death and miracles - online review Print-out
Die Aufführung griechischer Dramen am Akademischen Gymnasium in Wien Photocopy
Flyer: Alkestis Flyer
Listing of Greek tragedy productions by time periods Listing
Mary Kay-Gamel Materials - Files on disc CD
Performances of Greek Drama at Wellesley, Massachusetts Production chronology
Personal notes by Michael Hackett Personal notes
Professor Frederic Koch as Death in the Alcestis of Euripides Photocopy
Programme: Alkestis Programme
The Cubiculo Photocopy
Theatrical activity of the Classic Liceum of Roseto degli Abruzzi Listing
Time Out Review (April 7-13) Print-out
Alcestis! The Original Strong-Minded Woman - First Night Playbill Poster 1850
The Observer: Music and the Drama. Monday edition Print-out 1855
A performance of the Alcestis of Euripides by ladies at Queen's College, Harley Street Image 1886
The Alcestis at Uppingham Print-out 1892
Alkestis Magazine 1900
The Greek Play at Bradfield College Newspaper cutting 1904
Alcestis at University College School Print-out 1909
Advertisement for Alcestis - South Villa, Regent's Park Print-out 1910
Alcestis Review: Westminster Gazette Print-out 1910
Greek Plays in America Print-out 1910
The Coburn Players in the Electra of Euripides Photocopy 1910
Alcestis - photograph 01 B&W photograph 1914
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