Who wrote Les Erinnyes, the French verse drama based Aeschylus' Oresteia?
Les Érinnyes Les Érinnyes (The Erinyes) is a French language verse drama written by Leconte de Lisle and premièred at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1873. It is in the style of a Greek tragedy, in two acts: "Klytaimnestra" (Clytemnestra) and "Orestès" (Orestes). It was an adaptation of the first two parts of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" ("Agamemnon" and "Libation Bearers"). The text was printed in de Lisle's collection "Poèmes Tragiques".
Greek (opera) Greek is an opera in two acts composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage to a libretto adapted by Turnage and Jonathan Moore from Steven Berkoff's 1980 verse play "Greek". The play and the opera are a re-telling of Sophocles's Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" with the setting changed to the East End of London in the 1980s. The opera was first performed on 17 June 1988 in the Carl-Orff-Saal of the Gasteig, Munich, in a co-production by the Munich Biennale, the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC.