Die Loreley
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Die Loreley is an opera by Max Bruch to a German-language libretto by Emanuel Geibel, originally intended for Felix Mendelssohn.[1][2]
Bruch did not complete the work until 1863.[3] The opera was premiered at Mannheim on 14 June 1863.[4] It was revived in 1887 in Leipzig conducted by Gustav Mahler.[5] The British premiere was in 1986 by University College Opera, London.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Program of the Ann Arbor May Festival, issues 27–30, p. 45, University of Michigan. University Musical Society (1920): "Fifth Concert Saturday Afternoon May 19, Prelude to Loreley, Op. 16, Bruch – ... Some years later his [Max Bruch's] attention was drawn to the libretto of an opera – Loreley – which Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) had originally written for Mendelssohn. ... Bruch read the poem in 1861, and immediately set out for Munich to induce the author to permit him to make a setting for the text."
- ^ Mews, Siegfried, James N. Hardin (1993) Nineteenth Century German writers: 1841–1900, p. 106: "Geibel refused to allow Die Loreley to be published until 1860; in 1861 he assented to a composition by Max Bruch."
- ^ IMSLP, probably taking its information from the notes to the cpo recording of the work.
- ^ Fifield, Christopher (1994). "Max Bruch". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan. pp. 617–18. ISBN 0935859926.
- ^ a b Fifield 1994, p. 617.
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