Euryanthe, J. 291

Composer: Weber, Carl Maria von

Librettist/Text Author: Chezy, Helmine von

Conductor: Trinks, Constantin

Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Chorus: Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Chorus Master: Ortner, Erwin

Adolar: Reinhardt, Norman

Eglantine: Kronthaler, Theresa

Euryanthe: Wagner, Jacquelyn

Herzogin von Burgund: Neubauer, Eva Maria

Konig Ludwig IV: Cerny, Stefan

Lysiart: Foster-Williams, Andrew

Set Designer: Leiacker, Johannes

Costume Designer: Weihrauch, Judith

Lighting Designer: Traub, Reinhard

Stage Director: Loy, Christof

Television Director: Landsmann, Paul

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Venue: Theater an der Wien, Austria

Playing Time: 02:46:40

Catalogue Number: 2.110656

UPC: 747313565658

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Weber's 'great heroic-romantic' opera Euryanthe premiered in Vienna in 1823. It concerns the wronged Euryanthe, victim of a plot to establish her unfaithfulness, but her love imbues her with colossal strength which Weber characterises with acute psychological insight. Through-composed and dispensing with spoken dialogue, its chivalric plot provides opportunities for a series of arias, ariosos, duets, cavatinas and choruses that contain some of his greatest operatic music. This production employs the opera's original version with a few, very minor cuts.