Name: L'anima del filosofo
Start: 2009-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Sopran

Simone Kermes

Euridice

Tenor

Paul Agnew

Orfeo

Bass

Jonathan Lemalu

Creonte

Dirigat

Paul Goodwin

Lorna Anderson

Genio

MusikTheater an der Wien

Orchestra

Kammer Orchester Basel

Others

Wiener Kammer Chor

Italienisch

L'anima del filosofo -  (Die Seele des Philosophen)

Wien

Österreich

Theater an der Wien

Die Seele des Philosophen

Genehmigt

Instrumentalist

Klavier

Violinist

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Violist

Flutist

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hornist

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Harper

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Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

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Regie

Libretto

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Tänzer

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Maske

Leitender Produzent

Haar

Andere

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Chor

Orchester

Poet

GesangslehrerIn

Lehrer

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Rundfunk

Illustrator

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Extra

Bass-Bariton

Singer

Bariton

Mezzosopran

Countertenor

Gesprochen

Kinderstimme

Leise

Alto

Continuo

When his employer Nikolaus I died in September 1790, Joseph Haydn lost his position as princely conductor at the Esterháza court after 30 years. The London impresario Johann Peter Salomon immediately traveled to Vienna when he heard of the chance to lure the free Haydn to England. Haydn was to perform twelve symphonies and one opera seria in London. But no sooner had Haydn started rehearsals for L'anima del filosofo at the Haymarket Theater than the authorities interrupted the rehearsal of the opera on behalf of the king. Haydn got caught in a typical London opera dispute. The former solo dancer Giovanni Andrea Gallini wanted to rebuild the Haymarket Theater as an Italian opera house after a fire and establish it as a competitor to the royal patronage of the Pantheon. The eldest son of the king, the Prince of Wales, supported Gallini. But the king himself, George III, refused the necessary concessions. All performances of L'anima del filosofo had to be canceled.

The librettist Carlo Francesco Badini used the popular material by Orpheus and Eurydice for “L'anima del filosofo”. In contrast to the famous setting for Gluck, he and Haydn did not envisage a triumph of love over death. The opera is said to be “of a completely different kind to that of Gluck” noted Haydn on January 8, 1791. Even in antiquity, the idea of ​​Orpheus as a philosopher, who with his singing could not only appease wild animals, but also people that civilization is said to have brought. Opposite him is Eurydice as a symbol for justice and the right measure, which Orpheus teaches to curb his desires.

As an opera composer, Haydn mainly worked for the small circumstances of the Esterházy theater. When he started working on L'anima del filosofo, it had been seven years since he had completed his last opera Armida. It could have been his greatest success, but Haydn never heard his opera himself and did not compose another one until his death in 1809. The work was not premiered in Florence until 1951.

English

Die Seele des Philosophen by Haydn, Ab (2009/2009), Dirigat Paul Goodwin, Theater an der Wien, Wien, Österreich

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