Perséphone

Melodrama for the stage or concert-room by Stravinsky (libretto by André Gide), produced at the Paris Opéra on 30 April 1934. The melodrama comprises three scenes about the mythical Persephone, who is raped by Pluto. Stravinsky, however, introduces the idea of self-sacrifice into the plot, so that the myth becomes similar to a Christian parable.