Annibale in Capua

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Opera dates
Original title: Annibale in Capua
Shape: Dramma per musica
Original language: Italian
Music: Antonio Salieri
Libretto : Antonio Simone Sografi
Premiere: May 19, 1801
Place of premiere: Trieste , Teatro Grande
Playing time: approx. 2 ½ hours
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Annibale in Capua is a dramma per musica in three acts by Antonio Salieri based on a libretto by Antonio Simone Sografi . Salieri wrote this work in 1801 for the opening of the new theater in Trieste . The title role was occupied by the castrato Luigi Marchesi , whom Salieri had parodied in a grotesque way in his opera Prima la musica e poi le parole , written in 1786 . The original score of Annibale has been lost; there is only a contemporary copy of dubious quality. Salieri's first biographer Ignaz von Mosel wrote about the work:

“You can tell from the whole that the composer was tied up by the power of the circumstances, by the existing personalities of the singers and their demands on the music, and could not let his genius rule freely. In those pieces of clay in which he was able to follow his principles and his judgment, there is something worthy of him; but for the most part he was forced to work against his better conviction, which has so often and gloriously proven, and then he is no longer himself. "

- Ignaz Franz Edler von Mosel : About the life and works of Anton Salieri. Vienna, Wallishauser 1827.

In recent times Salieri's Annibale has received little attention in Capua . In 1990 the Austrian soprano Arno Raunig published an aria from the opera on his debut CD. As part of the Walldorfer Musiktage festival, excerpts from the work were presented in concert in autumn 2010; The soprano Berit Barfred Jensen and the tenor Thomas Ströckens sang under the direction of Timo Jouko Herrmann .

In addition to Salieri's work, there are two other operas of the same name, a “melodrama” by Nicolò Beregan presented in Venice in 1661 with music by Pietro Andrea Ziani and a “melodramma serio” by Luigi Romanelli with music by Giuseppe Farinelli , which premiered in 1811 at La Scala in Milan.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolph Angermüller: Antonio Salieri. His life and world with special consideration of his “great” operas (= writings on music. Vol. 16, 17, 19 = publications of the Institute for Musicology of the University of Salzburg. Vol. 2, 3,1, 4). 3 volumes. Katzbichler, Munich 1971–1974, ISBN 3-87397-016-3 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-87397-021-X (Vol. 2), ISBN 3-87397-019-8 (Vol. 3).
  2. Program Walldorfer Musiktage 2010, City of Walldorf, September 2010.
  3. Annibale in Capua. Melodramma Serio in 2 Atti del sig. L. Romanelli Poeta del Ro Teatro alla Scala, da rappresentarsi nel suddetto Ro Teatro nel Carnevale dell'Anno 1811. Società Tipografica de 'Classici Italiani, Milano sa