Leben des Orest

It premiered at the Neues Theater in Leipzig on 19 January 1930,[2] and opened at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin in early March of the same year (Leichtentritt 1930, 366).

Pierre Boulez wrote an open letter denouncing the management's actions against the disruptions as "organized terror" and the faculty of the Sommerferienkurse sided with him in calling the work a mere relic of the 1920s.

He tells him that it will be easier to convince the queen if Ægisth's name is kept out of it and the plan seems the king's own, and when Agamemnon leaves he expresses his glee at being closer to the throne.

As the breeze picks up, the people sing a farewell to peacetime and depart, Klytæmnestra remarking that the limping accordionist who remains is a fitting emblem of the ravaged country.

The chorus altos again relate how Agamemnon was rewarded, for his great faith in the gods, with a miracle, and the curtain rises on Thoas' astronomical observatory.

He relates how, since he was widowed, he has sought consolation in the secrets of nature, and he senses that the Moon is about to send an embodiment of the longed-for southern land.