Franz Richter Herf

Odysseus, op. 12 (1979)

Opera in six scenes, from the cantos of the Odyssey by Homer

translated by Johann Heinrich Voss

arranged by Franz Richter Herf

• Pamela Hamblin – Athene (soprano)
• Chris Merritt – Hermeias (tenor)
• Walter Raninger – Odysseus (baritone)
• Walter Gabriel – Telemachos (tenor)
• Klaus Wallprecht – Menelaos (bass)
• Barbara Bonney – Helena (soprano)
• Friederike Seywald-Baumgartner – Kirke (alto)
• Gabriele Zierk – Kalypso (soprano)
• Helene Johansson – Nausikaa (soprano)
• Gabriele Stadler – Penelopeia (mezzo-soprano)
• Bernhard Adler – Eteoneus (bass)
• Reinhard Salamonsberger – Peisistratos (tenor)
• Monique Villers – Eurykleia (alto)
• Hubert Berger – Seele des Teiresias (speaker)
• Signe Seidel – Seele der Mutter (female speaker)
• Salzburg Student's Choir
• Orchestra of the Mozarteum Academy Salzburg
• Conductorship: Rupert Huber

Recording by the ORF Radio of the first performance in the Aula Academica of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, on 13 June 1979 and 15 June 1979.

• Floor manager: Wolfgang Danzmayr
• Sound mixer: Ing. Josef Sladko

Odysseus - 1st scene, Beginning

Odysseus - Chant of the Sirens