Adrast

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Opera dates
Title: Adrast
Shape: Opera fragment
Original language: German
Music: Franz Schubert
Libretto : Johann Mayrhofer
Premiere: 1868 (individual numbers)
Place of premiere: Wiener Musikverein
Place and time of the action: mythical time
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While the Adrast 1819/20 was being built, Schubert and Mayrhofer lived together in a room in the now demolished house to the right of the “Old Town Hall” on Wipplingerstraße

Adrast is an unfinished opera by Franz Schubert ( D 137, 1819/1820) based on the libretto by Johann Mayrhofer, which has been handed down in fragments .

Origin and performance history

There is no more detailed information about the origins of the Adrast . Mayrhofer's text book, which refers to an episode from Herodotus' Histories , has only survived in the parts set to music by Schubert; Ernst von Feuchtersleben decided not to publish the manuscripts still available to him as part of the edition of Mayrhofer's poetry. So probably only a fraction of the originally planned musical numbers are fully orchestrated. In addition, there are a few, predominantly arios recitatives in the draft.

In 1868 and 1875, individual numbers of the opera by Johann von Herbeck were premiered in concerts in the Wiener Musikverein . The completed music numbers appeared in the old Schubert Complete Edition in 1893 and were then performed in 1946 on the Swiss Radio Beromünster , in Vienna concerts in 1978 and at the Vienna Schubert Days in 1985, conducted by Helmuth Froschauer .

All musical numbers and drafts that have been handed down in full were heard during the performance on the occasion of the thirty-year anniversary of the Vienna Research Center of the New Schubert Edition . The concert took place on November 19, 2010 in the auditorium of the Old University of Vienna ( Austrian Academy of Sciences ) under the musical direction of Mario Aschauer , the editor of the score. A recording of this performance is now available under the title Sounding Research 1. Franz Schubert: Adrast D 137 individual numbers and drafts for an opera. First complete recording with a scientific introduction by the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on CD.

action

King Croesus (baritone) instructs the young Adrast (tenor) to accompany and protect his son Atys (tenor), who is already married to Arianys (soprano). At the father's request, Atys is supposed to kill a wild boar that devastated the fields of the kingdom. While hunting, Adrast throws an arrow at the boar, but Atys is hit. Adrast is forgiven, but has to leave the court of the Myser King.

literature

  • Franz Schubert: stage works. Critical complete edition of the texts , ed. by Christian Pollack ( IFSI publications , vol. 3). Schneider, Tutzing 1988, ISBN 3-7952-0576-X .
  • Elizabeth Norman McKay: Franz Schubert's Music for the Theater (= IFSI publications , vol. 5). Schneider, Tutzing 1991, ISBN 3-7952-0664-2 .
  • Elizabeth Norman McKay: Schubert and Classical Opera: The Promise of Adrast . In: Erich Wolfgang Partsch (ed.): The forgotten Schubert: Franz Schubert on the stage . Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98749-7 , pp. 61-76.
  • M. Aschauer (Ed.): Adrast . In: New Schubert Edition , Series II / 12, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-936187-37-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst von Feuchtersleben provided individual information about the work for the first time in 1843 in his explanations of Mayrhofer's poetry edition and in 1865 Heinrich Kreißle von Hellborn in his Schubert biography .
  2. ^ Information on the premiere on November 19, 2010 in the Aula of the Old University of Vienna ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Franz Schubert: Adrast D 137 performers are Jan Petryka (Adrast and Atys), Matthias Helm (Krösus), Elisabeth Wimmer (Arianys) as well as the male choir "Neue Unsinnsgesellschaft" and the "Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra".