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Cast
- Commandant of the beleaguered town: (baritone)
Maria, the commandant's wife: (soprano)
A Sergeant-Major: (bass)
A corporal: (baritone or tenor)
A private soldier: (tenor)
A musketeer: (bass)
A bugler: (bass)
An officer: (baritone)
A front-line officer: (baritone)
A Piedmontese: (tenor)
The Holsteiner, commanding the besieging army: (bass)
The burgomaster (Mayor): (tenor)
The bishop: (baritone)
A woman of the people: (soprano)
Mixed Chorus (SATB)
- Soldiers of the garrison and of the besieging army, elders of the town and
women of the deputation to the commandant, townspeople
Pit Orchestra
- 3 flutes (3rd also piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, clarinet (C), 2 clarinets
- bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon
- 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, bass tuba
- timpani, percussion:
- (Bass drum, snare drum, tenor drum, tam-tam)
- strings (16,16,12,10,8)
On-Stage Orchestra
- Trumpet, glockenspiel, organ
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