The benevolent dervish
| Work data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The benevolent dervish |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Benedikt Schack |
| Libretto : | Emanuel Schikaneder |
| Premiere: | September 10, 1793 |
| Place of premiere: | Freihaustheater , Vienna |
The benevolent dervish or the bell cap is the title of a three-act German-language opera written in 1791 by Benedikt Schack in collaboration with Franz Xaver Gerl and Johann Baptist Henneberg , which premiered on September 10, 1793 in the Freihausheater in Vienna . The libretto was written by Emanuel Schikaneder . A second version had its premiere on March 18, 1807 under the title The Magic Drum at the Theater in der Josefstadt .
content
The play can be assigned to the plot based on the German Turkish operas popular in the 18th century .
effect
The almost forgotten Singspiel is at best remembered today because it was composed and written by artists from Mozart's circle around the time the Magic Flute was created. With this in mind, it was also recorded for a CD under Martin Pearlman in 2001. In 1807, a revised second version attempted to tie in with the success of Mozart's Magic Flute , which had meanwhile been developing, by choosing the new title Die Zaubertrommel , but without any verifiable success.
In 2008, using the original score of the Singspiel, a modern version of the opera was created in today's Berlin: Turkish for lovers of Sinem Altan (music) and Dilek Güngör (text) was premiered on December 4, 2008 at the Neukölln Opera .
literature
- David Joseph book: The benevolent dervish: Vienna, 1791 (= Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era. Volume 81). AR Editions, Inc., Middleton 2010, ISBN 978-0-89579-668-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).