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Oper am Brühl
51°20′32.5″N 12°22′47.9″E / 51.342361°N 12.379972°E
The Oper am Brühl (also Barockoper Leipzig) was the first opera house in Leipzig. It existed from 1693 to 1720 and was the second municipal music theatre in Germany, after the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. It was initiated by Nicolaus Adam Strungk who saw a potential audience during the three annual trade fairs in Leipzig. An opera house was built, and opened on 8 May 1693. The house flourished when Georg Philipp Telemann directed the opera from 1703 to 1705. Among his operas for the house is Germanicus, premiered in 1704. A collection of 100 excerpts from the operas, Musicalische Rüstkammer, has been explored for background. The building was found in a dangerous state in 1719, was closed in 1720 and demolished in 1729.
The opera house at Brühl was located almost at the eastern end of the street and bordered the city wall to the north. After the construction of the Georgenhaus in 1701, it was its neighbouring building. According to Leipzig council records, the building was a three-storey wooden house with a gable roof, 47 metres long, 15 metres wide and 10 metres high. The facade was structured by eight pilasters, and ornaments decorated the entrance portal. The semicircular auditorium had fifty boxes on five triforiums. The stage featured 15 pairs of scenery.
Kapellmeister Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700) from the Dresden court had realised that at least at the three Leipzig Trade Fairs, around New Year's Day, Easter and Michaelis in September, there was an audience in Leipzig interested in opera performances and ready to pay for them. He therefore sought a licence for opera performances, which was granted to him in 1692 by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg IV for ten years, in each case for the fair times and at his own expense.
The opera house was the second municipal music theatre in Germany, after the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. Together with the Italian architect Girolamo Sartorio, who had built the Hamburg opera house in 1678, Strungk leased the property in January 1693 for 300 thalers annually. The theatre was built within only four months, so that the first performance could take place in the presence of the Elector during the Leipzig Easter Fair of 1693 on 8 May. The program included Strungk's Alceste. The German libretto, after Aurelio Aureli, was written by Paul Thymich, a teacher of the Thomasschule. The title role was sung by Thymich's wife. Sartorio had built elaborate sets, with a forest, a king's hall and a hellish dragon with flames. The team produced several more operas.[citation needed]
From 1696, Christian Ludwig Boxberg joined as librettist and composer. He composed and directed the operas Die verschwiegene Treue and Sardanapalus for a guest performance by the Leipzig opera company at the court of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1698. The autograph of the latter has been preserved in the Staatliche Bibliothek Ansbach. The piece is the oldest surviving German-language opera from central Germany. It was revived in 2012 at the Ekhof-Theater) in Gotha.
The opera house reached its prominence when Georg Philipp Telemann, who had enrolled at Leipzig University two years earlier, became music director in 1703. He founded an amateur orchestra of 40 players, mostly students of music, the Collegium Musicum, which also played opera. Telemann's roommate, the later composer Christoph Graupner, was among the players. Telemann wrote the texts for many of his operas, played the keyboard in the orchestra and sometimes sang opera roles. In 1704, his opera Germanicus, to a libretto by Christine Dorothea Lachs, was first performed, to be repeated in 1710. He left Leipzig in 1705 for a position at the Sorau court, but kept composing operas for the Leipzig house. In a autobiography, Telemann reported:
... Soon afterwards, I took over the direction of the operas, of which I have written a total of several and twenty, even from Sorau and Franckfurt, and the verses to many of them. For the court of Weissenfels, I produced about four operas, and finally established the still standing music college in Leipzig...
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51°20′32.5″N 12°22′47.9″E / 51.342361°N 12.379972°E
The Oper am Brühl (also Barockoper Leipzig) was the first opera house in Leipzig. It existed from 1693 to 1720 and was the second municipal music theatre in Germany, after the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. It was initiated by Nicolaus Adam Strungk who saw a potential audience during the three annual trade fairs in Leipzig. An opera house was built, and opened on 8 May 1693. The house flourished when Georg Philipp Telemann directed the opera from 1703 to 1705. Among his operas for the house is Germanicus, premiered in 1704. A collection of 100 excerpts from the operas, Musicalische Rüstkammer, has been explored for background. The building was found in a dangerous state in 1719, was closed in 1720 and demolished in 1729.
The opera house at Brühl was located almost at the eastern end of the street and bordered the city wall to the north. After the construction of the Georgenhaus in 1701, it was its neighbouring building. According to Leipzig council records, the building was a three-storey wooden house with a gable roof, 47 metres long, 15 metres wide and 10 metres high. The facade was structured by eight pilasters, and ornaments decorated the entrance portal. The semicircular auditorium had fifty boxes on five triforiums. The stage featured 15 pairs of scenery.
Kapellmeister Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640–1700) from the Dresden court had realised that at least at the three Leipzig Trade Fairs, around New Year's Day, Easter and Michaelis in September, there was an audience in Leipzig interested in opera performances and ready to pay for them. He therefore sought a licence for opera performances, which was granted to him in 1692 by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg IV for ten years, in each case for the fair times and at his own expense.
The opera house was the second municipal music theatre in Germany, after the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. Together with the Italian architect Girolamo Sartorio, who had built the Hamburg opera house in 1678, Strungk leased the property in January 1693 for 300 thalers annually. The theatre was built within only four months, so that the first performance could take place in the presence of the Elector during the Leipzig Easter Fair of 1693 on 8 May. The program included Strungk's Alceste. The German libretto, after Aurelio Aureli, was written by Paul Thymich, a teacher of the Thomasschule. The title role was sung by Thymich's wife. Sartorio had built elaborate sets, with a forest, a king's hall and a hellish dragon with flames. The team produced several more operas.[citation needed]
From 1696, Christian Ludwig Boxberg joined as librettist and composer. He composed and directed the operas Die verschwiegene Treue and Sardanapalus for a guest performance by the Leipzig opera company at the court of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1698. The autograph of the latter has been preserved in the Staatliche Bibliothek Ansbach. The piece is the oldest surviving German-language opera from central Germany. It was revived in 2012 at the Ekhof-Theater) in Gotha.
The opera house reached its prominence when Georg Philipp Telemann, who had enrolled at Leipzig University two years earlier, became music director in 1703. He founded an amateur orchestra of 40 players, mostly students of music, the Collegium Musicum, which also played opera. Telemann's roommate, the later composer Christoph Graupner, was among the players. Telemann wrote the texts for many of his operas, played the keyboard in the orchestra and sometimes sang opera roles. In 1704, his opera Germanicus, to a libretto by Christine Dorothea Lachs, was first performed, to be repeated in 1710. He left Leipzig in 1705 for a position at the Sorau court, but kept composing operas for the Leipzig house. In a autobiography, Telemann reported:
... Soon afterwards, I took over the direction of the operas, of which I have written a total of several and twenty, even from Sorau and Franckfurt, and the verses to many of them. For the court of Weissenfels, I produced about four operas, and finally established the still standing music college in Leipzig...
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