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FULL Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (Richard Wagner) Madrid 2024
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Das Liebesmahl der Apostel
- Composer: Wagner Richard
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro real, Madrid, Spain
- Recorded: May 26, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers:
- Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno
- Orchestra: Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
- Chorus: Coro Titular del Teatro Real
- Chorus Master: José Luis Basso
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) WWV 69 (in English The Feast of Pentecost, “The Love-Meal of the Apostles”) is a piece for orchestra and male choruses by Richard Wagner. It is rarely performed and little known. Many years after having written it, Wagner described it as “a sort of folkloric miracle play”.
History
Wagner, who had been elected in January 1843 to the committee of a cultural association in the city of Dresden, received a commission to evoke the theme of Pentecost. He had successfully performed Rienzi in Dresden in 1842; however, Der fliegende Holländer, produced there in January 1843, was not received as warmly.
The premiere of Das Liebesmahl took place at the Dresdner Frauenkirche on 6 July 1843, and was performed by around a hundred musicians and almost 1,200 singers, from all over Saxony. The work was dedicated to Charlotte Emilie Weinlig, the widow of Wagner’s former teacher Christian Theodor Weinlig. The concert was very well received, but Wagner was disappointed by its “relatively feeble effect” in view of the vast assembly of singers it had brought together.