Roles
| Role | Voice type | Stuttgart Premiere, 25 October 1912 (Conductor: Richard Strauss) |
Vienna Premiere, 4 October 1916 (revised version) (Conductor: Franz Schalk) |
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| Prologue | Opera | |||
| The prima donna | Ariadne | soprano | Maria Jeritza | Maria Jeritza |
| The tenor | Bacchus | tenor | Herman Jadlowker | Béla von Környey |
| Zerbinetta | soprano | Margarethe Siems | Selma Kurz | |
| Harlequin, a player | baritone | Albin Swoboda, Jr. | Hans Duhan | |
| Scaramuccio, a player | tenor | Georg Maeder | Hermann Gallos | |
| Truffaldino, a player | bass | Reinhold Fritz | Julius Betetto | |
| Brighella, a player | tenor | Franz Schwerdt | Adolph Nemeth | |
| The composer | soprano | Lotte Lehmann, replacing Marie Gutheil-Schoder |
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| His music master | baritone | Hans Duhan | ||
| The dancing master | tenor | Georg Maikl | ||
| A wigmaker | baritone | Gerhard Stehmann | ||
| A lackey | bass | Viktor Madin | ||
| An officer | tenor | Anton Arnold | ||
| The Major-Domo | spoken | Anton August Stoll | ||
| Naiad, a nymph | high soprano | M. Junker-Burchardt | Charlotte Dahmen | |
| Dryad, a nymph | contralto | Sigrid Onégin | Hermine Kittel | |
| Echo, a nymph | soprano | Erna Ellmenreich | Carola Jovanovic | |
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