Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards
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| Title: | Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards |
Title page of the libretto, Hamburg 1729 |
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| Shape: | Opera in three acts |
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German , Italian |
| Music: | Georg Philipp Telemann |
| Libretto : |
Christoph Gottlieb Wend , Georg Philipp Telemann |
| Literary source: | Stefano Ghisi |
| Premiere: | November 23, 1729 |
| Place of premiere: | Opera at the Gänsemarkt , Hamburg |
| Place and time of the action: | Northern Italy in the 7th century |
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Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards ( TWV 21:27) is an opera in three acts by Georg Philipp Telemann . The libretto is by Christoph Gottlieb Wend and Georg Philipp Telemann. The first performance took place on November 23, 1729 in the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt .
Emergence
The opera is based on the Venetian opera Flavio Bertarido, Ré de Longobardi by Stefano Ghisi , which premiered in 1706 with music by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo .
action
The action takes place in northern Italy in the years 661 to 671. At this time Grimoaldus is the king of the Longobards. The deposed Bertaridus ( Perctarit ) asks through his faithful Onulfus the king Grimoaldus to be allowed to return to the court. His sister Flavia stands up for him. He does not know that his wife Rodelinda and Cunibert ( Cunincpert ) disguise themselves as shepherds and stay around with false names. Rodelinda and Flavia, for their part, do not know where Bertaridus is. Bertaridus in disguise meets his sleeping sister, whom he does not kill despite thoughts of revenge. He leaves his sword lying around, which Rodelinda learns that he is nearby.
Flavia, who has now awakened, invites Rodelinda and Cunibert to the court - without knowing who they are. Bertaridus meets woman and child while still in the forest; they recognize each other. Grimoaldus falls in love with the strange woman (Rodelinda), but she is loyal and wants to lure him into an ambush. In the dark, Rodelinda attacks everyone who approaches her, including the jealous Bertaridus who ambushes her and Orontes who is waiting for Flavia. Because he loves Flavia.
Grimoaldus arrests Rodelinda, Bertaridus frees her. Grimoaldus dies on a hunt. But Flavia believes that he fell victim to an attack by Orontes. Disappointed with this reaction, Orontes leads her to believe that her child Regimbert has been murdered, which almost leaves Flavia in despair. But he thinks about it and takes it back to his mother. Bertaridus and his family learn from the Lombard guardian spirit that Grimoaldus is no longer alive. Bertaridus is installed in his old rights; with the consent of her brother, Flavia married Orontes.
reception
The opera's score was re-published in 2006 as an Urtext edition by Bärenreiter . In 2011 the opera was performed again in the summer at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and in the following winter at the Hamburg State Opera (on the occasion of the 333th anniversary of the Hamburg Opera).
See also
Web links
- Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards (Georg Philipp Telemann) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Libretto from 1729 as a digitized version in the "Directory of 18th Century Prints Published in the German-Speaking Area" in the German Digital Library .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards TVWV 21:27 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2006. (Score)
- ↑ Telemann's “Flavius Bertaridus” in a new production by Jens-Daniel Herzog and Alessandro De Marchi in Innsbruck , contribution to Deutschlandfunk.
- ↑ Revival at the Hamburg State Opera ( Memento from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).