Rescue opera

Rescue opera

A rescue opera was a popular subject of opera in the nineteenth century. Generally, rescue operas dealt with the rescue of a main character from some sort of danger. The genre became popular in France at around the time of the French Revolution, and many such operas dealt with the rescue of a political prisoner.

The most famous example of a rescue opera is Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio". Examples also exist by Luigi Cherubini ("Les deux journées"), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail"), Ferdinando Paer and Bedřich Smetana.

References

* James Anderson, "The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta".


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