Demetrio (Mayr)
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| Title: | Demetrio |
Title page of the libretto, Turin 1824 |
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| Shape: | Dramma per musica in two acts |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Johann Simon Mayr |
| Libretto : | probably Lodovico Piossasco Feys |
| Literary source: | Pietro Metastasio : Demetrio |
| Premiere: | December 27, 1823 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro Regio , Turin |
| Place and time of the action: | Seleukia , around 145 BC Chr. |
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Demetrio is an opera seria (original name: "Dramma per musica") in two acts by the German composer Johann Simon Mayr . It was premiered on December 27, 1823 at the Teatro Regio in Turin . It is Mayr's last opera. The libretto template comes from the imperial court poet Pietro Metastasio . The processing and division into two acts was probably done by Lodovico Piossasco Feys .
Libretto and plot
Performance history
The cast for the premiere in 1823 is printed in the text book. Adelaide Tosi (Cleonice), Isabella Fabbrica (Alceste), Pietro Fontana (Fenicio), Eliodoro Bianchi (Olinto), Marietta Sacchi (Barsene) and Lorenzo Biondi (Mitrane) sang. Giovanni Battista Polledro was in charge of the overall management .
More recently, the opera was performed again in 2011 at the Festival Stand de Moutier in the Bernese Jura . Bénédicte Tauran (Cleonice), Amaya Dominguez (Alceste), Piotr Friebe (Olinto), Lisandro Abadie (Fenicio), Elizabeth Bailey (Barsene) and Matteo Mezzaro (Mitrane) as well as the opera choir of Teatr Wielki sang . The Orchester Symphonique du Jura of the Opera Obliqua Stand de Moutier played. Facundo Agudin was the musical director . A recording was released on CD by OehmsClassics . A new production by the Posen State Opera under the same conductor followed in 2012 in Posen and in a concert performance in Ingolstadt .
Web links
- Demetrio (Johann Simon Mayr) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on October 21, 2014.
- Libretto (Italian), Turin 1824 as digitized version at the Munich Digitization Center .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of stage works by Johann Simon Mayr based on the MGG in Operone
- ↑ Details on the 2011 performance on the SRF website
- ↑ INGOLSTADT: DEMETRIO by Simon Mayr . Review of the performance in Ingolstadt 2012 in Online Merker .
- ↑ Much applause for Mayr's opera “Demetrio”. ( Memento from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Review of the performance in Ingolstadt 2012 in the focus of Ingolstadt .