Richard Strauss, Klaus Schultz (Editor) Die Ägyptische Helena: Oper in 2 Aufzügen von Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Munich: J. Gotteswinter, 1981. 105 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This progam was intended as a guide to the new production of this Strauss opera during the Münchner Opernfestspiele of 1981 in the Bayerische Staatsoper Nationaltheater München under the direction of Wolfgang Sawallisch. A small record, containing recordings of the original staging of 1928, is laid into pocket at rear of volume. This opera in two acts by Richard Strauss, to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 6 June 1928.
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