Die Hochzeit des Camacho MWV L 5
Opera in 2 Acts
Carl von Lichtenstein, Friedrich Voigts (text)
[solos,mix ch,orch] solos: SSTTTBarBBB – choir: SATTBB – 2.2.2.2 – 4.2.3.0 – timp.perc – str | stage music: 2ob2clar2bsn2hn2trp
Description
Die Hochzeit des Camacho is Mendelssohn’s last opera and was composed at the same time as works such as the String Octet and the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The first and only performance took place on 29 April 1827 at the Königliches Opernhaus in Berlin, but with an almost completely new libretto initiated by the directorship and some therefore necessary musical adaptations and additions. The fact that only one performance took place was due to the illness of the singer of Don Quixote, and Mendelssohn, dissatisfied with the way, things had gone, did not attempt to arrange further performances after the singer’s recovery. Instead, the piano reduction was published in 1828, for which Mendelssohn obviously revised the opera extensively, but above all restored the original libretto as far as possible. However, there was never a correspondingly revised score, as a performance of the revised version never took place.
Based on the piano reduction and the available sources, Clive Brown has prepared a score that takes these revisions into account as far as possible, allowing us to follow the mature conception of Mendelssohn’s musically most advanced opera
MM 2038911
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Description
Description
Die Hochzeit des Camacho is Mendelssohn’s last opera and was composed at the same time as works such as the String Octet and the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The first and only performance took place on 29 April 1827 at the Königliches Opernhaus in Berlin, but with an almost completely new libretto initiated by the directorship and some therefore necessary musical adaptations and additions. The fact that only one performance took place was due to the illness of the singer of Don Quixote, and Mendelssohn, dissatisfied with the way, things had gone, did not attempt to arrange further performances after the singer’s recovery. Instead, the piano reduction was published in 1828, for which Mendelssohn obviously revised the opera extensively, but above all restored the original libretto as far as possible. However, there was never a correspondingly revised score, as a performance of the revised version never took place.
Based on the piano reduction and the available sources, Clive Brown has prepared a score that takes these revisions into account as far as possible, allowing us to follow the mature conception of Mendelssohn’s musically most advanced opera
World premiere
World premiere: Liverpool/UK, April 9, 2011