Tassilone

Opera dates
Title:	Tassilone
Title page of the libretto, 1709
Shape:	Tragedia per musica in five acts
Original language:	Italian
Music:	Agostino Steffani
Libretto :	Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini
Premiere:	January 17, 1709
Place of premiere:	Dusseldorf
Playing time:	approx. 4 hours
Place and time of the action:	A Carlos castle near Mogonza
people
Tassilone ( Tassilo III. ), Bavarian prince ( soprano , castrato ) Carlo Magno ( Charlemagne ), Kaiser ( bass ) Rotruda, daughter Carlos (soprano) Teodata, daughter Carlos (soprano) Gheroldo, Prince of Svevia (soprano, castrato) Gismonda, daughter of Desiderios, king of the Lombards , wife of Tassilones ( old ) Adalgiso, unrecognized brother of Gismondas, ambassador of the Greek emperor ( tenor ) Sigardo, the Prince of Aquitaine (Alt) Guido, captain of the guards Carlos (bass) La Virtù (virtue) (soprano) People, soldiers, entourage of virtue ( chorus )

Tassilone is an opera (original name: "tragedia per musica") in five acts by Agostino Steffani . The libretto was written by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini (1672–1742). The first performance of the music drama took place on January 17, 1709 in Düsseldorf . It deals with the life story of the Bavarian Prince Tassilo III. who opposed the emperor Charlemagne .

Parallels to the impeachment of the Bavarian Elector in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession and to the award of the Bavarian Elector (June 23, 1708) with the Upper Palatinate including the County of Cham (June 25, 1708) to Johann Wilhelm , the Elector of the Palatinate and the Duke of Jülich -Mountain to Tassilo III. are clear in the work of the Düsseldorf court composer Agostino Steffani.

Instrumentation

Two oboes , bassoon , trumpet , strings and basso continuo play in the opera's orchestra .

output

• Tassilone, Tragedia per Musica (in 5 atti). Rappresentata alla Corte Eletoralle Palatina l'anno 1709. Text: Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini (1672–1742). Music: Agostino Steffani (1654–1728). Monuments of Rhenish Music , Volume 8, published by Gerhard Croll, Musikverlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1958. Anniversary edition of the City of Düsseldorf and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on the 300th birthday of Elector Johann Wilhelm.

Web links

Commons : Tassilone  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tassilone (Agostino Steffani) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
• Libretto (Italian), 1709. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center .
• Entry on operamanager.it (Italian) ( Memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silke Leopold : Tassilone. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 6: Works. Spontini - Zumsteeg. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-02421-1 , pp. 15-16.