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Wirt und Gast oder aus Scherz Ernst : Lustspiel mit Gesang in zwei Aufzügen Nach einem Märchen der Tausend und einen Nacht / von Johann Gottfried Wohlbrück ; die Musik von Jakob Meyerbeer, Tonkünstler aus Berlin ; introduced and edited by Robert Ignatius Letellier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wohlbrück Gottfried.
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Arabian nights--Drama.
- Arabian nights.
- Noches árabes--Drama.
- Local Subjects:
- Noches árabes--Drama.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- German
- Summary:
- The subject-matter of Meyerbeer's second opera Wirt und Gast, or Aus Scherz Ernst (also called Alimelek), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man who would be sovereign, if only for one day, so frequently treated in the literature of all nations. The opera is an example of the Oriental or "Turkish" operas which were so popular in Germany during the second third of the eighteenth century. . The orchestra includes, besides the strings, d...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACT ONE; ACT TWO
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-02995-9
- 9786612029950
- 1-4438-0098-8
- OCLC:
- 746470525
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