Prométhée Tragédie Lyrique en 3 Actes de Jean Lorrain & F. A. Hérold à Monsieur Castelbon de Beauxhostes ... Prix net: 10 f. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: J. Hamelle [PN J. 4586 H.], 1900. Large octavo. Quarter red calf with matching textured paper boards with initials "A.T." gilt to upper outer corner, raised bands on spine, titling gilt, decorative endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance and named cast list, verso index), 3-176 pp.

Named cast includes Cora Laparcerie, Odette de Fehl, de Max, Fierens-Peters, Rose Feldy, Torrès, Valentin Duc, Vallier, and Roussoulière. With manuscript additions listing singers in the 26 August 1901 performance, one year after the first.

Small oval handstamp to lower outer corner of title.

Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Light uniform browing; some signatures partially detached. Second version.

Prométhée was first performed in Béziers at the Arênes de Béziers on 26 August 1900.

"[The work] ... is scored for three wind bands, 100 strings and 12 harps, choirs and solo voices. The success of the productions on 27 and 28 August 1900 was immense; the work was revived there on 25 and 27 August 1901, and in Paris on 5 and 15 December 1907. With the help of his favourite pupil Roger-Ducasse, Fauré completed a reduction of the original orchestration for normal symphony orchestra, a version introduced at the Paris Opéra on 17 May 1917 ... Prométhée ... sums up all the facets of [Fauré's] style at the turn of the century: delicacy and profundity, but also measured force." Jean-Michel Nectoux in Grove Music Online.