InstrDetail
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Cast
- The Emperor: (tenor)
The Empress, Keikobad's daughter (high dramatic soprano) The Nurse, The Empress's guardian (dramatic mezzo-soprano) The Messenger of Keikobad (high baritone) The Guardian of the Threshold of the Temple (soprano or countertenor) The Apparition of a Youth (high tenor) The Voice of a Falcon (soprano) A Voice from Above (contralto) Barak, the Dyer (bass-baritone) The Dyer's Wife (high dramatic soprano) The One-eyed Man, Barak's brother (high bass) The One-Armed Man, Barak's brother (bass) The Hunchback, Barak's brother (high tenor) Voices of Six Unborn Children (3 sopranos, 3 contraltos or baritones) Voices of Three Town Watchmen (3 baritones or basses)
Chorus (SATB)
- Servants of the Empress, other children and beggar-children,
spirit-servants and attendant spirit-voices
Pit-Orchestra
- 4 flutes (3rd and 4th also piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd also English horn), piccolo clarinet, 2 clarinets,
- basset-horn (also clarinet 3), bass clarinet (also clarinet 4), 4 bassoons (4th also contrabassoon)
- 8 horns (5-8 also Wagner tuba), 6 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba
timpani (4), percussion:
- (musical glasses, 5 Chinese gongs, cymbals, snare drum, rute, sleigh bells, bass drum, tenor drum, big field drum, triangle, tambourine, 2 castanets, tamtam, whip (slapstick), xylophone, glockenspiel, bells)
2 celestas, 2 harps, strings (16-16-6+6-6+6-8)
Onstage Instruments*
- 2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon
horn, 6 trumpets, 6 trombones wind machine, thunder machine, 4 tam-tams, organ
- On-stage woodwinds and horn may play in pit if necessary. Two of the on-stage trumpets move to the pit for Act III, thus a total of 10 trumpets is required.
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