This book is the first study of the development of German opera in
northern Germany from the first comic operas of Johann Adam Hiller
at Leipzig in 1766 to the end of the century. Intellectually and
historically, the period witnessed the flowering of the German
stage and German letters. German opera was an inseparable part of
the new aspirations of the German stage during the Enlightenment.
Thomas Bauman stresses the vital role of the mixed repertories of
German companies in effecting changes in the genre. North German
opera began as a basically literary genre. It then changed
dramatically in response to two major trends: first, the contact
with the serious elements and styles of tragedy and secondly, the
triumph on German stages of Italian, French, and Viennese comic
operas. The book is generously illustrated with music examples.
There is also a complete catalogue of texts of North German opera:
those composed for performance and unset published librettos both
cross-indexed under the librettists' names.
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