The Bassarids
Subtitle: based on The Bacchae of Euripides (480?-406 B.C.)
By: libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman ; music by Hans Werner Henze
Publisher: Cleveland Orchestra
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Bassarids
Notes: Libretto; published for performances by the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland, Oct. 18 and 20, 1990, and in New York, Oct. 27, 1990.

"Only the text that actually appears in the opera is included in this ... libretto"--P. 59.

"Background material and synopsis prepared by Eric Sellen and Roger Wright"--P. 3.