Author: philsoperaworld
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Viktor Parma: Urh, grof Celjski/Urh, Count of Celje (1895)
Opera v treh dejanjih. Running Time: 1 hour 17 minutes. I seem to be into these three-act mini-operas lately. How this one has escaped me when I planned out a review of it back in 2017 is beyond me, as is noted in my review of Parma’s Ksenija. I have actually heard the entire opera […]
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Gabriel Dupont: Antar (1914/1921)
Opera in four acts and five tableaux. Running Time: 2 hours 12 minutes. A romantic tragedy of mixed-race Arabian love, Antar is the only theatrical work of its composer that has been revived at all in recent years. It was finished at Cap Ferret in Aquitaine, where Dupont was treated for the Tuberculosis which eventually killed him […]
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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny: Le roi et le fermier (1762)
Opera-Comique en trois actes. Running Time: 1 hour 13 minutes (music only). OS has been sending me SOS’s for this one for a while now and so here I am going to tackle something I rarely do on this blog, a pre-1800 work. Wish me luck! SETTING: Sherwood Forest, Medieval England. Richard (baritone) is a […]
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J.P.E. Hartmann: Liden Kirsten (1859 Version)
Opera in two acts. Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes. Another Danish outing here, this time with a libretto by Hans Christian Andersen and a score by Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, a dual-career lawyer-composer who served as assistant organist of Vor Frue Kirke (Our Lady’s Church), the cathedral of Copenhagen, from 1846 until his death […]
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Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencerages (1813)
Opera en trois actes. Running Time: 2 hours 48 minutes. It is ironic that the first Cherubini opera I finally reviewed was also his last completely new score: technically 1833’s Ali-Baba is based on a work composed, but not produced, in the 1790s. OperaScribe has just released his review of this opera, after months of […]
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