Renée Fleming sings Daphne

Transcendent tragedy or stupid Greek my

by James Leonard

posted 10/1/2005

Here is the myth of Daphne as adapted by composer Richard Strauss and his librettist, Joseph Gregor: Apollo, god of light and truth, falls in love with Daphne, nymph of trees and rivers. When his amorous advances are rebuffed, Apollo, in a fit of jealousy, kills the man Daphne loves, and then, in a fit of remorse, asks his father, Zeus, god of might, majesty,

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