Germanicus (opera)
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Germanicus is an opera by Georg Philipp Telemann, to a libretto in German by the poet Christine Dorothea Lachs, fourth daughter of Nicolaus Adam Strungk of Dresden.[1][2][3][4] The opera was written in 1704 and revised in 1710. It was performed in 1704, and then again Hamburg in 1706, the opera written during his time in Leipzig as a student.[5] The plot centers around the love triangle between the Germanic tribal leader Arminius, Agrippina the Younger, and Claudius.[6]
| Germanicus | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Georg Philipp Telemann | |
The composer, c. 1745 | |
| Librettist | Christine Dorothea Lachs |
| Language | German |
| Based on | Life of Germanicus |
| Premiere | 1704 Oper am Brühl, Leipzig |
It is supposedly one of the twenty operas that Telemann wrote for the opera house in the Oper am Brühl in Leipzig.[7]
The opera was believed lost until 45 arias were discovered in a Frankfurt archive by Michael Maul. The opera was premiered with spoken text between arias at the Bachfest Leipzig 2007 and at the 2010 Magdeburg Telemann Festival under conductor Gotthold Schwarz. A recording was released by cpo in 2011.
Recording
- Gotthold Schwarz (conductor), Germanicus, Label: CPO, DDD, 2010, 3 CDs. With Olivia Stahn, Elisabeth Scholl, Matthias Rexroth, Henryk Böhm, Tobias Berndt, Sächsisches Barockorchester, ASIN: B005UU066S
