- Abu Hassan
"Abu Hassan" is an
opera in one act byCarl Maria von Weber to a Germanlibretto byFranz Hiemer , based on a story in "A Thousand and One Nights ". It was composed between August 11, 1810, and Jan. 12, 1811 and has set numbers withrecitative and spoken dialogue.Performance history
"Abu Hassan" was first performed at the Residenz Theater in
Munich onJune 4 ,1811 , underPeter Winter . In London it was produced in English atTheatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1835,and in Italian at Drury Lane on May 12, 1870 (at the same time with Mozart's "L'oca del Cairo "),the translation being made by Marchesi, and the dialogue set to recitative by Arditi."Abu Hassan" is not now part of the commonly-performed operatic repertory, though it is sometimes staged.
Roles
ynopsis
It is set in
Baghdad in an unspecified time.Recordings
Recordings exist (by Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopold Ludwig, Heinz Rögner, Gustav Kuhn and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, the last in Russian).
References
* [http://www.amadeusonline.net/almanacco.php?Start=0&Giorno=4&Mese=06&Anno=1811&Giornata=&Testo=&Parola=Stringa Amadeus Almanac, accessed 7 October 2008]
*Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second editionExternal links
* [http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Abu_Hassan.htm "Abu Hassan" synopsis] from
Naxos Records
* [http://stageagent.com/Shows/View/932 Abu Hassan plot summary & character descriptions] from [http://www.stageagent.com StageAgent.com]
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