FULL L’HUOMO (Bernasconi) Bayreuth 2023 Maria Ladurner, Philipp Mathmann, Francesca Benitez, Anna Herbst

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: L'HUOMO   
• Composer: Bernasconi Andrea   
• Libretto: Markgräfin Wilhelmine    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Markgräflichen Opernhaus, Bayreuth, Germany  
• Recorded: May 6, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Maria Ladurner, Philipp Mathmann, Francesca Benitez, Anna Herbst, Johanna Falkinger, Alice Lackner, Simon Bode, Florian Götz
• Conductor: Dorothee Oberlinger   
• Orchestra: Ensemble 1700  
• Stage Director: Niels Niemann  
• Stage Designer: Johannes Ritter  
• Costume Designer: Johannes Ritter  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: BR Klassik  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, desubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The “Festa teatrale” “L’Huomo” had its premiere in 1754, with a libretto by Margravine Wilhelmine herself. Now the opera can be heard again at the place of its premiere: at the Margravial Opera House. Dorothee Oberlinger conducts the Ensemble 1700.

  King Frederick the Great visits his sister Wilhelmine in Bayreuth, she is Margravine there. As is customary, a new opera is performed in honor of the guest. He probably already suspected that he wouldn’t get any of the usual works of homage – he knows his favorite sister too well for that, with her mischievous self-confidence and brilliant education. And he was right: Instead of allegorically presenting the Prussian king with his power and wisdom, Wilhelmine celebrates the superiority of the female soul, which generously overlooks the shortcomings of men. And it still refers to the philosophy of the Persian religion founder Zarathustra.

  “L’Huomo” (ambiguously: “man” and “man”) is the title of the “Festa teatrale”, which premiered in 1754. Wilhelmine wrote the libretto herself and commissioned the music from the Munich Vice Kapellmeister Andrea Bernasconi. Now the opera, which is as festive as it is subtle, can be heard again at the place of its premiere: at the Margravial Opera House, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it has been preserved almost in its original form and has shone in fresh splendor since the last renovation. Dorothee Oberlinger conducts the Ensemble 1700 and an outstanding ensemble of soloists around Maria Ladurner, Philipp Mathmann and Simon Bode.

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