FULL Der Heinrich aus der Hölle (Schedlberger) Festival NACHTS 8 Vienna 2009 sirene Operntheater

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Der Heinrich aus der Hölle  
• Composer: Schedlberger Gernot   
• Libretto: Kristine Tornquist based on Leo Perutz    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Expedithalle der Brotfabrik, Wien, Austria  
• Recorded: July 10, 2009
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Rupert Bergmann, Petr Strnad, Ingrid Haselberger, Ingrid Habermann, Armin Gramer. Apostol Milenkov
• Conductor: Gernot Schedlberger  
• Orchestra: ensemble_online / PHACE  
• Stage Director: Kristine Tornquist  
• Stage Designer: Jakob Scheid  
• Costume Designer: Markus Kuscher  
• Lighting Designer: Edgar Aichinger  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: sirene  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

00:00 0. Der Heinrich aus der Hölle
01:05 1. Pantomime: Rudolfs Albtraum (Beginn der Oper)
05:09 2. Nacht am Hradschin, der Prager Burg
22:24 3. Orchesterzwischenspiel (Rudolf sinkt in einen ruhigeren Schlaf)
25:56 4. Der Morgen im Schlafzimmer des Kaisers
28:17 5. Orchesterzwischenspiel (Einzug des marokkanischen Gesandten)
34:18 6. Die Audienz des marokkanischen Gesandten
41:47 7. Orchesterzwischenspiel
45:32 8. In der Herberge am Stadtrand von Prag
52:26 0. Applaus

Rudolf II awakes from a nightmare. He had the courtiers Hanniwald, Sternberg and Bubna called, but confused the young cupbearer Bubna with someone else, as he often does in his paranoia. Only after Bubna prays our Father on the orders of the emperor does he calm down. The emperor tells his dream in which he is tempted by the devil, who prophesies that the secret treasure will escape him and that terrible punishments will come over the country. The emperor’s confidants discuss what he should answer the devil’s emissary. The Kaiser likes Hanniwald’s formulation and calms down, recognizes Bubna too and finally goes to bed. The Moroccan ambassador arrives in Prague with a large, well-stocked retinue and is received at court. But the emperor reacts in a strange way again. He takes the ambassador for Heinrich Twaroch, a former forage servant in the imperial stables, who stole a coin from him and then disappeared. Rudolf II accuses the ambassador of disbelieving and coming from hell. The courtiers are embarrassed. The emperor, however, does not allow himself to be deterred, he sees in the envoy the devil’s envoy, who is now awaiting his answer. So he repeats the words of Hanniwald: I won’t leave the Lord Jesus a finger. The audience is over. In the evening, the envoy goes to a gardener on the outskirts, disguised as a craftsman. He tells him that the emperor received him and was the only one who recognized him at court – him, the former stable boy Heinrich Twaroch, the son of the Prague gardener who had converted to Islam

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