Der geduldige Socrates
A three-act German comic opera centered on Socrates.
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A three-act German comic opera centered on Socrates.
A comic Arcadian opera in German in three acts, first performed in Leipzig and later revised for Hamburg.
Don Quixote and Sancho take part in the wedding of Comacho and Quiteria, in a comic one-act serenata based on an episode from Cervantes’s novel. Telemann’s score contrasts elevated operatic style for the noble figures with folk-inspired music for the peasants.
A three-act German Singspiel by Telemann.
Telemann’s German-language opera seria is a separate setting of Stefano Ghisi’s Flavio Bertarido, Ré de Longobardi libretto, adapted with rewritten recitatives and added German choruses.
After Genseric’s Vandals conquer Rome, he pursues the emperor’s widow Eudoxia, while his son Honoricus seeks her daughter Pulcheria. The Vandal prince Helmige rejects Melita’s affection and pursues Placida, who is engaged to the Roman Olybrius.
Telemann’s opera dramatizes events surrounding Germanicus and centers on a love triangle involving the Germanic leader Arminius, Agrippina the Younger and Claudius. The original score was believed lost; 45 arias later recovered were presented with spoken text between them.
A three-act opera set in Persia and built around an account of Pashtun emir Mirwais Hotak, whose son’s achievements were partly attributed to him in the source account.
Queen Orasia of Thrace loves Orpheus, but he loves Eurydice. Orasia plots against Eurydice, who dies from a snakebite in Orpheus’s arms. Orpheus descends to the underworld and persuades Pluto to release her, but looks back too soon and loses her. Orasia expects him to love her now, but he rejects her. She urges Bacchus’s followers to kill Orpheus, then sees a vision of Orpheus and Eurydice reunited and kills herself in despair.
The chambermaid Vespetta wheedles her way into marrying her employer, the elderly Pimpinone. After the marriage, she reveals a sharp temper and completely dominates him.
A three-act German comic opera centered on Socrates.
A comic Arcadian opera in German in three acts, first performed in Leipzig and later revised for Hamburg.
Don Quixote and Sancho take part in the wedding of Comacho and Quiteria, in a comic one-act serenata based on an episode from Cervantes’s novel. Telemann’s score contrasts elevated operatic style for the noble figures with folk-inspired music for the peasants.
A three-act German Singspiel by Telemann.
Telemann’s German-language opera seria is a separate setting of Stefano Ghisi’s Flavio Bertarido, Ré de Longobardi libretto, adapted with rewritten recitatives and added German choruses.
After Genseric’s Vandals conquer Rome, he pursues the emperor’s widow Eudoxia, while his son Honoricus seeks her daughter Pulcheria. The Vandal prince Helmige rejects Melita’s affection and pursues Placida, who is engaged to the Roman Olybrius.
Telemann’s opera dramatizes events surrounding Germanicus and centers on a love triangle involving the Germanic leader Arminius, Agrippina the Younger and Claudius. The original score was believed lost; 45 arias later recovered were presented with spoken text between them.
A three-act opera set in Persia and built around an account of Pashtun emir Mirwais Hotak, whose son’s achievements were partly attributed to him in the source account.
Queen Orasia of Thrace loves Orpheus, but he loves Eurydice. Orasia plots against Eurydice, who dies from a snakebite in Orpheus’s arms. Orpheus descends to the underworld and persuades Pluto to release her, but looks back too soon and loses her. Orasia expects him to love her now, but he rejects her. She urges Bacchus’s followers to kill Orpheus, then sees a vision of Orpheus and Eurydice reunited and kills herself in despair.
The chambermaid Vespetta wheedles her way into marrying her employer, the elderly Pimpinone. After the marriage, she reveals a sharp temper and completely dominates him.