Medea



Dated: 1967
Instrumentation: Stage music for men's choir (also playing rhythms on pebbles) and 5 instrumentalists: clarinet, bassoon (+contra bassoon), trombone, percussion and cello.
Timing: 25'
Premiere: March 29, 1967 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris, France, performed by the Compagnie de l'Odéon-Théátre de France, dir. Diego Masson
Dedicated to:
Commissioned by: Jean-Louis Barrault
Published: Editions Salabert 17046


The composition is the music for Seneca's Medea in a stage version of Jorge Lavelli. The text is from the verses 301-379 from Seneca's original Latin text..
Recording available at Hyperion CDA66980.