Engelbrekt (opera)
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| Title: | Engelbrekt |
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Model for an Engelbrekt statue |
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| Shape: | Opera in four acts |
| Original language: | Swedish |
| Music: | Natanael Mountain |
| Libretto : | Natanael Mountain |
| Premiere: | September 21, 1929 |
| Place of premiere: | Kungliga Teatern , Stockholm |
| Playing time: | 2 to 3 hours |
| Place and time of the action: |
Dalarna , Copenhagen , Vadstena , Stockholm , Lake Hjälmaren 1433 to 1436 |
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Engelbrekt is an opera in four acts by Natanael Berg . It deals with the life of the Swedish freedom fighter Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson during the Engelbrekt uprising . It was first performed on September 21, 1929 in the Kungliga Teatern in Stockholm .
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : three flutes (including piccolo ), three oboes (also cor anglais ), three clarinets (including bass clarinet ), three bassoons (including contrabassoon)
- Brass : four horns , two trumpets , three trombones , tuba
- Timpani , percussion (one player)
- Strings
Work history
Berg wanted to win over Erik Axel Karlfeldt as a librettist, but he thought it would be better if the composer wrote the libretto himself. Berg wrote the libretto after August Theodor Blanche's play Engelbrekt och hans Dalkarlar ( Engelbrekt and his men from Dalarna ) . The opera was composed between 1926 and 1928, the world premiere took place on September 21, 1929 at the Kungliga Teatern in Stockholm . The conductor was Armas Järnefelt , and Einar Larsson sang the title role of Engelbrekt . Other contributors were the soprano Helga Görlin, the mezzo-soprano Irma Björck, the tenors Oskar Ralf, Einar Beyron and Henning Malm, the baritone Joël Berglund and the basses Sven d'Ailly and Åke Wallgren.
In 1933 the opera was performed in Braunschweig based on a German translation by Fritz Tutenberg (1902–1967). There the praise to the Swedish freedom fighter Engelbrekt was seen as an homage to the “Führer”. The music critic Ernst Stier (1847-1935) characterized it in 1934 in the magazine for music as "Hitler's first opera".
literature
- Engelbrekt. In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 5227 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Engelbrekt, opera in four acts at Levande Musikarv (English, Swedish )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Engelbrekt, opera in four acts in Levande Musikarv (English).
- ↑ Engelbrekt on klassika.info, accessed on April 13, 2017.
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 2618 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ John London (ed.): Theater Under the Nazis. Manchester University Press, Manchester / New York 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5991-7 , p. 161 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Ulrich Schreiber : Opera guide for advanced learners. The 20th Century I. From Verdi and Wagner to Fascism. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1436-4 , p. 671.
- ↑ John London (ed.): Theater Under the Nazis. Manchester University Press, Manchester / New York 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5991-7 , p. 161 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Engelbrekt, opera i fyra akter in Levande Musikarv (Swedish).