FULL TOD DER DIDO (Holzbauer) Perchtoldsdorf 2022 Katharina Adamcyk, Ayelén Paula Mose, Jinxin Chen, Christopher Willoughby
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Tod der Dido or The Death of Dido
- Composer: Holzbauer Ignaz
- Libretto: Anton Klein (after Metastasio) Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Burg Perchtoldsdorf, Austria
- Recorded: August 21, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Katharina Adamcyk, Ayelén Paula Mose, Jinxin Chen, Christopher Willoughby
- Conductor: CHRISTOPH ULRICH MEIER
- Orchestra: Ensemble TEATRO BAROCCO on historical instruments
- Stage Director: BERND ROGER BIENERT
- Stage Designer: BERND ROGER BIENERT
- Costume Designer: BERND ROGER BIENERT
- Lighting Designer: BERND ROGER BIENERT
Information about the Recording
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer (18 September 1711 – 7 April 1783) was an Austrian composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the Sturm und Drang “movement” of German art and literature.
Holzbauer was born in Vienna. Despite the opposition of his parents, who intended him for the law, he studied music, and in 1745 became kapellmeister to Count Rottal and at the Court Theatre of Vienna. Later he was kapellmeister at Stuttgart, Germany.[1] His operas include Il figlio delle selve, which was the opening performance of the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in 1753. Its success led to a job offer from the court at Mannheim, Germany, where he stayed for the rest of his life, continuing to compose and to teach, his students including Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann (1766–1798), the pianist, and Carl Stamitz. Holzbauer died in Mannheim, having been entirely deaf for some years.
His opera Günther von Schwarzburg, based on the life of the eponymous king (and described here), was an early German national opera, a performance of which Mozart and his sister attended, through which they met Anton Raaff, who was later to premiere a role in Idomeneo. This opera has recently been recorded on the label cpo. Holzbauer wrote 196 symphonies.[1]
Mozart also composed nine numbers for insertion in a Miserere by Holzbauer on commission by the Parisian Concert Spirituel in 1778, but they have been lost. They have been given the catalog number KV 297a in the list of Mozart’s works.
Quoted from Wikipedia