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F. Schubert - Stage Works, Operas

Damned, Doomed or Cursed... or All of Them?

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FRANZ SCHUBERT STAGE WORKS, OPERAS
Most people,

when requested to recall a stage work by Schubert,

will fail,

or

may manage to mention just Rosamunde .
It comes as a suprise to many to think of him as an opera composer,

but he spent considerable time and effort over many years in an unsuccesful attempt to establish himself in this genre.
It was after all the most likely means for him to establish his name and earn an income in the absense of a patron, and his unsuitability for a Kappelmeister post.

Indeed, on his death bed, he was still discussing opera librettos with his friends.

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With a little more luck with theatre management,

some better librettos,

and the chance to hone his skills with the revision of works during rehearsals,

he would perhaps have produced works which would have remained in the repertoire.

As it is,

we are left with several abandoned works,

5 complete singspiele,

3 others which have been wholly or partly lost,

a melodrama,

the incidental music to Rosamunde

and

2 complete operas. (All together around 20 Stage Works)
Schubert's completed stage works are very variable, but there is some of his most magnificent music in them.
At the time of his death at age 31, it is believed that Schubert stood poised on the threshold of becoming a recognized composer of opera.
FIERRABRAS *First Complete Record in History*

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/1/2008
Band Members: Franz Peter Schubert

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" Setting out to Fight and to Conquer: ", Schubert and his singer friend Michael Vogl. ( Attributed to Franz von Schober, c.1825, caricature, pencil, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien.: )

Influences: Beethoven, Mozart, Weber, Gluck...

Sounds Like: The third track from the top, featured on this page's music player, Overture: from Schubert's 1823 opera Die Verschworenen: (The Conspirators) is accepted to be partially lost: .

Last 12 pages of this Overture were discovered in 1959: by Dr. Fritz Racek in Vienna Stadtbibliothek and filled by passages accordingly from the opera for the missing begining.

There is influence of Weber and 1820's Rossinian fashion in Vienna on this particular opera of Schubert.

Record Label: FPS
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

"Des Teufels Lustschloss" D.84, 1814

Franz Peter Schubert was the master of the 19th Century German song; an inexhaustible melodic genius. No other composer was as lyrical, as humanistic, as in love with the voice, as was Schubert. Of hi...
Posted by F. Schubert - Stage Works, Operas on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:12:00 PST

Die Verschworenen *The Censored*

That Schubert began compose 13 operas - only two were staged during his lifetime, and those under less than ideal circumstances - is a well-kept secret. At least one opera that deserves a better fate...
Posted by F. Schubert - Stage Works, Operas on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:22:00 PST

Alfonso und Estrella "The Damned*

Alfonso und Estrella From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Schubert never heard the opera performed in his lifetime.   Alfonso und Estrella (Alfonso and Estrella) is an opera with music by Franz...
Posted by F. Schubert - Stage Works, Operas on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:47:00 PST

Fierrabras "The Doomed*

Fierrabras (opera) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   Schubert never saw the opera produced in his lifetime.   Fierrabras is a three-act opera by the composer Franz Schubert, to a lib...
Posted by F. Schubert - Stage Works, Operas on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:42:00 PST

Rosamunde *The Cursed*

Rosamunde, Fuerstin von Zypern was a play written by Helmina von Chezy, who also wrote the much maligned libretto for Weber's Euryanthe. It was put on at the Theatre an der Wien on 20th December 1823....
Posted by F. Schubert - Stage Works, Operas on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:45:00 PST