Name: Il maestro di cappella
Start: 2022-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Schönbrunn

Organization

Stage director

Bernd Roger Bienert

Set designer

Conductor

Christoph U Meyer

Pianist

Singer

Katharina Adamcyk

Dido

Christopher Willoughby

Osmida

Jakob Nistler

Baritone

Jinxin Chen

Il maestro di cappella

Jarbas

Elena Sverdiolaitė

Ayelén Paula Mose

Selene

Orchestra

Ensemble Barocco

Teatro Barocco

Il maestro di cappella -  (The Music Master)

Perchtoldsdorf

Austria

Bernd R. Bienert presents
TEATRO BAROCCO

AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

THE DEATH OF DIDO
Musical tragedy in one act

Music by
IGNAZ HOLZBAUER
(Mannheim, 1784)

Libretto by
ANTON KLEIN (after Metastasio)

Artistic director and stage director: BERND ROGER BIENERT 

Musical direction and fortepiano: CHRISTOPH ULRICH MEIER

Costume design, stage sets and lighting: BERND ROGER BIENERT

Dido
KATHARINA ADAMCYK

Selene
AYELÉN PAULA MOSE

Jarbas
JINXIN CHEN

Osmida
CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY

Choir | Orchestra: 
Ensemble TEATRO BAROCCO on historical instruments

First Edition: Bärbel Pelker
Publisher: Carus-Verlag

live recording at Burg Perchtoldsdorf/Vienna/Austria on 21 August 2022

We would like to thank NÖ Kultur for supporting the production and BMKOES for supporting digitization.

Melk

Vienna

Schönbrunn

Il maestro di cappella (+1 More)

Public

The Music Master

Tod der Dido

Approved

"Il maestro di cappella" is a comic music-theatrical scene for a solo singer (bass-baritone) and for orchestra. After the short, musical introduction, the exalted singer appears on the stage. First he explains that he wants to present an aria to the audience "in the old style" in the style of a Scarlatti. But that doesn't happen in the course of his performance. Because, instead of beginning with the announced aria, the soloist corrects individual instruments in the orchestra pit from the stage. He doesn't skimp on his suggestions for interpretation, which become more and more independent and gets tangled up in discussions with individual orchestral instruments. By singing a few passages he tries to clarify how the individual parts are to be played. He finally leaves the stage satisfied.

"Death of Dido" is a one-act opera drama by Ignaz Holzbauer, which the Austrian composer and Mozart contemporary composed in 1779 in Italian to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio on behalf of Elector Carl Theodor. It was Holzbauer's penultimate opera that he premiered at the Mannheim National Theater and it was also the first opera that was newly composed for this theatre. Up to this point in time, Singspiele, mostly translated from French, had been performed at the National Theater there. Under the title "Death of Dido", loosely based on Metastasio's libretto Didone abbandonata, Holzbauer worked out a German version, which was also performed in Mannheim in 1784 shortly after Holzbauer's death.

English

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