with the executioners from Olympus. Though Hephaestus laments for his friend, Bia and Kratos are there to ensure that he make the chains to bind Prométhée to the rock. Having slit his veins, they leave and the revived Pandore enters again to lament his fate. Act 3 A chorus of Oceanids comforts Pandore. Bia and Kratos return to threaten her and Prométhée, followed by Hermes with the gift of a box from Zeus. Despite being warned by Prométhée to refuse, Pandore insists on taking it. She discovers that her tears have been miraculously transformed there to a balsam. The opera ends with praise for the benevolence of the tyrannical Zeus. Productions The opera has been presented very rarely, but in July 2011 there was a Brazilian production by the in São Paulo. This Brazilian production included recitatives instead of spoken lines and a new orchestration by their conductor and director, Paulo Maron. References Notes Sources Nectoux, Jean-Michel, Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life, Cambridge University 2004, pp. 192–214 Warrack, John; West, Ewan (1992). The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . Further reading Murray, David (2001). "Gabriel Fauré" in The New Penguin Opera Guide, edited by Amanda Holden. London: Penguin Books. . External links French-language operas 1900 operas Operas by Gabriel Fauré Operas based on classical mythology Operas