FULL Der vergessene Alchimist (Descamps) Festival NACHTS 3 Vienna 2009 sirene Operntheater
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Der vergessene Alchimist
- Composer: Descamps François-Pierre
- Libretto: Kristine Tornquist based on Leo Perutz Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Expedithalle der Brotfabrik, Wien, Austria
- Recorded: June 5, 2009
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Dimitrij Solowjow, Rupert Bergmann, Johann Leutgeb, Petr Strnad, John Sweeney, Raimund Klebel
- Conductor: François-Pierre Descamps
- 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
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
0:00:00 Der vergessene Alchimist
0:00:43 1592. Rudolf II., der Kaiser (Beginn der Oper)
0:06:24 Jakobus van Delle, der Alchimist
0:12:21 Phillip Lang, der Kammerdiener
0:22:17 Brouza, ehemaliger Ofenmeister
0:26:34 Der Kaiser und der Hofnarr
0:33:58 Die Flucht des Alchimisten
0:44:54 Der Jude Mordechäus Meisl
0:50:31 Reichtum
0:51:58 Verzweiflung
0:54:25 Der Tod des Alchimisten
1:02:30 Der Rabbi Löw
1:05:01 Applaus
The emperor has financial problems, he has been insolvent for a long time, but is getting more and more into debt to buy art. He is desperate when the councils refuse to grant him any more money for some paintings. His personal valet, Philipp Lang, reassures him and advises him to do business with the wealthy Jew Mordechai Meisl instead of relying on the gold-making art of the court alchemist Jakobus van Delle. The court alchemist Jakobus van Delle bet his head on the emperor that he would have produced a bar of gold by St. Wenceslas Day. But the conversion of lead into gold failed and van Delle is terrified to death. His friend, the former court jester Brouza, decides to help him escape the castle and get money for the onward journey. To do this, he goes to the emperor and provokes him until the emperor attacks him. Brouza lets himself be beaten, but then complains about what the late father of the emperor, whose dearest jester he was, would say about it. To appease him and his conscience, the emperor gives him three guilders. Brouza brings the three guilders to van Delle and helps him escape the castle with a rope ladder. Van Delle injures himself and hides fearfully in Brouza’s little house. The alchemist’s escape is only noticed a long time after Wenceslas Day, but the emperor has long since forgotten the bet. And Philipp Lang explains to Brouza that the emperor has won a new, more successful gold maker for himself. When van Delle found out, he was so offended that he cut his wrists and died. His friend Brouza is as heartbroken as it was when Emperor Maximilian died.