FULL Der Maler Brabanzio (Haselböck) Festival NACHTS 5 Vienna 2009 sirene Operntheater

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Der Maler Brabanzio   
• Composer: Haselböck Lukas   
• Libretto: Kristine Tornquist based on Leo Perutz    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Expedithalle der Brotfabrik, Wien, Austria  
• Recorded: June 19, 2009
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Rupert Bergmann, Johann Leutgeb, Petr Strnad, Erik Leidal, Heidemaria Gruber, Barbara Braun
• Conductor: François-Pierre Descamps  
• Orchestra:
• 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: yessubs, desubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

00:00 Der Maler Brabanzio
01:40 Rudolf II. in seinem Schlafzimmer (Beginn der Oper)
07:50 Im Atelier des Malers Brabanzio
17:31 Mordechai Meisl betritt das Atelier
26:54 Schön war sie wie der silberne Mond
32:22 Ein Windhauch sind die Menschenkinder
39:39 Das Bild der Rose
40:51 Geld ist eine gute Sache
43:55 Rudolf II. in seinem Schlafzimmer
46:21 Nachspiel
48:57 Applaus

Emperor Rudolf II, an obsessed art collector, comes across a small picture by the Prague painter Brabanzio, which he recognizes as a masterpiece. He visits the painter incognito in his studio. There is a small picture on the wall that fascinates him. He advises the painter to try his luck at the castle, but Brabanzio doesn’t want to know anything about it, because word has got around that the emperor owes everyone their wages. Mordechai Meisl enters the studio. He hopes that the painter will paint him a portrait of his wife Esther, who has died a long time ago, which he cannot forget. He tries to describe Esther. According to these descriptions, Brabanzio cannot paint a portrait with the eyes of love. But Meisl’s words penetrate the heart of Emperor Rudolf and, lost in thought, he draws the face of his beloved from the dreams he could never forget. He himself is not satisfied with the small drawing; it seems too superficial to him. He leaves it and leaves the studio with the intention of sending a chamberlain to the small painting by Brabanzio the next day. A gust of wind blows the emperor’s drawing at Meisl’s and the painter’s feet. Meisl recognizes his deceased wife in the picture and pays the astonished painter generously. The next day the emperor’s valet found the Brabanzio’s atelier empty. With the eight guilders of Meisl, the unsteady painter set off on a journey.
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