Jakob Lenz (opera)

Jakob Lenz (opera)

"Jakob Lenz" is a one act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm, written 1977-78 after the novella Lenz by Georg Büchner in turn based on an incident in the life of the German poet.

Büchner's extraordinary opening pages describing the mountain landscape and hinting at Lenz's inner state with the single sentence "he did not feel at all tired, only it sometimes annoyed him that he could not walk on his hands instead of his feet" are reduced to a stage direction, but the rest of the libretto roughly follows Büchner's outline.

Performance history

The first performance was given in Hamburg on 8 March 1979.

Roles

*Lenz (baritone) Richard Salter
*Pastor Oberlin (bass)
*Kauffman (tenor)
*Chorus of six solo voices (SSAABB)

Instrumentation

*2 oboes, bass clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, 3 celli, harpsichord and percussion.

External links

[http://www.universaledition.com/truman/en_templates/paste.php3?template=werkinfo&spr=en&werk=2945&komp_uid=599 The publisher's page.]


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