Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)

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Aeschylus
Original id: 
440
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Information related to this script

Production First performed Venues
Oresteia (1955) 1955 Goldsmiths' College (London, Greater London, England)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1955) 1955 Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1955) 1955 Arts Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oresteia (1956) 1956 unknown venue (England)
The Flies (1956) 1956 Clarendon Press Institute (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Oresteia (1956) 1956 Stadttheattern St Gallen (St. Gallen, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland)
The Oresteia (1956) 1956 Catholic University of America (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
Oresteia (1956) 1956 Schauspielhaus (Zurich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland)
As the Stone Falls (1956) 1956 Irving Theatre Club (London, Greater London, England)
Les Choéphores (1957) 1957
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1957) 1957 unknown venue (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
The Flies (1957) 1957 University College London (UCL) (London, Greater London, England)
Oresteia (1958) 1958 unknown venue (Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1958) 1958 unknown venue (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Agamemnon (1958) 1958 Mĕstská Lidová Knihovna (Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)
Oresteia (1958) 1958 Alfred State College (Alfred, New York, United States)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1958) 1958 Alfred State College (Alfred, New York, United States)
Clytemnestra (1958) 1958 Adelphi Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
The Oresteian Trilogy (1958) 1958 University of California (Berkeley, State of California, United States)
La Orestiada (1959) 1959 unknown venue (Mérida, Extremadura, Spain)
Oresteia (1959) 1959 Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece), Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oresteia (1959) 1959 unknown venue (United States)
The Libation Bearers (1960) 1960 unknown venue (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteia (1960) 1960 Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)
Oresteia (1960 - 1969) 1960 University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Choephoroi; Eumenides (1960 - 1968) 1960 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece), Ancient Theatre of Dodona (Dodóni, Epirus, Greece), Teatro alla Scala, La Scala (Milan, Lombardy, Italy), unknown venue (Bulgaria), unknown venue (Denmark), unknown venue (Poland), unknown venue (Germany), unknown venue (Republic of Italy), unknown venue (Spanish State), unknown venue (Sweden), unknown venue (Athens, Attica, Greece), unknown venue (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic)
Oresteja (1960) 1960 Teatr Ludowy, Nowa Huta, Folk Theatre (Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland)
Orestiade (1960) 1960 Ancient Theatre of Syracuse, Teatro Greco (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)
La Orestiada (1960) 1960 Teatre Grec, Montjuïc (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), unknown venue (Mérida, Extremadura, Spain), Teatro Español (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
A Japanese Tragedy: Mourning Becomes Mr Mishima (1960) 1960
Orestea (1960) 1960
Oresteia (1960) 1960 Stadttheater (Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1961) 1961 Old Vic (London, Greater London, England)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 Pagkyprion Gymnasion (Nicosia, Nicosia District, Cyprus), Ancient Theatre of Kourion (Episkopi, Limassol District, Cyprus)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England), Old Vic (London, Greater London, England)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1961) 1961 Theater Regensburg (Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany)
The Flies (1961) 1961 University of Waseda (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 unknown venue (Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, Germany)
Die Orestie (1961) 1961 unknown venue (Germany)
The Choephori (1961) 1961 City Center of Music and Drama (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 Chateau Vallon (France)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 unknown venue (England)
Les Choéphores et le Procès d'Oreste (1961) 1961 Sorbonne (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
The Oresteia (1962) 1962 Globe Theatre (Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand)
L'Orestie (1962) 1962 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
The Oresteia (1962) 1962 University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, United States)
Oresteia (1962) 1962 Mahenovo Divadlo (Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic)
Clytemnestra (1962) 1962 unknown venue (Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Oresteia (1962) 1962 unknown venue (England)
Oresteia (1963) 1963 Deutsche Oper Berlin (1961-) (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Script Contributors Year Relationship
Les Choéphores Alexis Pierron (1814-1878) Translation
Oresteia Gerard Koolschijn
Die Orestie Peter Stein Adaptation
Oresteia Michael Ewans Translation
The Libation Bearers Michael Ewans Adaption
Die Oresteia-Trilogie H. v. d. Merwe Scholtz Translation
Oresteia Boris Shekassiouk Translation
The Oresteia Robert Lowell Translation
Choephoroe Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Orestie Ludwig Wolde Translation
Aars! Anatomische Studie van de Oresteia Luk Perceval, Peter Verhelst Adaptation
Aars! Anatomische Studie van de Oresteia Luk Perceval, Peter Verhelst Adaptation
The Tower Beyond Tragedy Robinson Jeffers Adaptation
Oresteia Antonio Calenda Adaptation
Clytemnestra Tadashi Suzuki Adaptation
The Oresteia James Dunn, Carla Smith-Zilber Adaptation
Příbĕh Électry [Story of Electra] Johana Kudláčková, Irena Žantovská Adaptation
Orestea Alberto di Stasio Adaptation
Oresteia Anton Sovrè Translation
Orestesobsession Stefan Schutz Adaptation
Orestie Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Translation
Les Choéphores Paul Claudel
L'Orestie Paul Claudel Translation
Oresteia Robert Fagles Translation
Oresteia David Grene, Wendy O'Flaherty Translation
The Oresteia Stuart Bousel Adaptation
Orestes and the Three Furious Ladies Melya Kaplan, Evris Tsakirides Adaptation
Orestes and the Three Furious Ladies Melya Kaplan, Evris Tsakirides Adaptation
Oresteia George Taylor Adaptation
Oresteia Petr Borkovec, Matyáš Havrda Translation
Le Procès d'Oreste Farid Paya Adaptation
Seeds of Atreus Herbert Blau Distant relative
Tu étais si gentil quand tu étais petit Jean Anouilh Adaptation
La Fiaccola sotto il moggio Adaptation
The House of Atreus E. D. A. Morshead Translation
Oresteia Walter Jens Adaptation
Oresteia Kostis Kolotas Translation
Messenger #1 Mark Jackson Adaptation
Le Coefore Ettore Romagnoli Translation
The New Oresteia of Yannis Ritsos Yannis Ritsos Distant relative
Libation-Bearers Tito Marrone
Oresteia Tito Marrone, Antonio Cippico Translation
Coephori Antonio Cippico, Tito Marrone
Oresteia Tito Marrone, Antonio Cippico Translation
Coephori Antonio Cippico, Tito Marrone
Orestie Karl Gustav Vollmoeller Translation
Orestea Manara Valgimigli Translation
Oresteia Kaitlin Chantry Adaptation
Oresteia Coelho de Carvalho Translation
The Oresteia Lord Edward Longford, Christine Longford Translation
Title Contributors Year Relationship
Le Théâtre des Grecs (1730) André Charles Brotier, Pierre Brumoy, Pierre Prévost, Guillaume Dubois de Rochefort (1731-1788), Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815) 1730 Translation
Oreste, ou les Coéphores, tragédie d'Eschyle, traduction nouvelle avec des notes (1770) Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815) 1770 Translation
Tragédies d'Eschyle (1770) Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709-1784) 1770 Translation
Théâtre d'Eschyle, traduit en français avec des notes philologiques et deux discours critiques (1795) Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815) 1795 Translation
Génie du théâtre primitif grec ou essai d'imitation d'Eschyle (1817) Henri Terrasson 1817 Translation
Les Choéphores, traduction d'AEschyle en vers français avec le texte en regard, par J. J. Puech professeur agrégé de l'université au collège royal Saint Louis (1836) J.-J. Puech 1836 Translation
Oeuvres d'Eschyle, traduites en vers français, par M. S.T.G. Biard (1836) J. T. G. Biard 1836 Translation
Théâtre d'Eschyle (1841) Alexis Pierron (1814-1878) 1841 Translation
L'Orestie, trilogie tragique (1863) Paul Mesnard 1863 Translation
Les Tragédies d'Eschyle (1865) Adolphe Bouillet 1865 Translation
Eschyle, traduction nouvelle (1872) Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) 1872 Translation
Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide, tome I (extraits) tome II (pièces choisies) (1894) Aimé Puech (1860-1940) 1894 Translation
L'Orestie d'Eshyle, traduction nouvelle par Paul Mazon publiée avec une introdution sur la légende, un commentaire rythmique et des notes (1903) Paul Mazon 1903 Translation
Eschyle, tragédies (1920) Paul Mazon 1920 Translation
Les Choéphores, Les Euménides (1920) Paul Claudel 1920 Translation
Théâtre antique (1956) André Bonnard, André Obey 1956 Translation
Les Choéphores (1992) Jean Bollack, Ariane Mnouchkine 1992 Translation
Les Tragiques grecs (1999) Victor-Henry Debidour 1999 Translation
Les Choéphores, Les Euménides (2009) Mayotte Bollack, Jean Bollack 2009 Translation

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