Die Liebe Der Danae - Roles

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast
16 August 1944 (dress rehearsal)
(Conductor: Clemens Krauss)
Public Premiere cast
14 August 1952
(Conductor: Clemens Krauss)
Jupiter baritone Hans Hotter Paul Schöffler
Merkur (Mercury) tenor Franz Klarwein Josef Traxel
Pollux, King of Eos tenor Karl Ostertag László Szemere
Danae, his daughter soprano Viorica Ursuleac Annelies Kupper
Xanthe, her servant soprano Irmgard Handler Anny Felbermayer
Midas, King of Lydia tenor Horst Taubmann Josef Gostic
Four Queens:
Semele
Europa
Alkmene
Leda

soprano
soprano
mezzo-soprano
contralto
Maud Cunitz
Stefania Fratnik
Maria Cornelius
Anka Jelacic
Dorothea Siebert
Esther Réthy
Georgine von Milinkovic
Sieglinde Wagner
Four Kings, nephews to Pollux 2 tenors, 2 basses Josef Trojan-Regar
Walter Carnuth
Georg Wieter
Franz Theo Reuter
August Jaresch
Erich Majkut
Harald Pröglhöf
Franz Bierbach
Four guards basses
Creditors, servants and followers of Pollux and Danae, people

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