Giacomo Meyerbeer - Emma di Resburgo - Ouverture

Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jacob Liebmann Beer; 5 September 1791 - 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer of Jewish birth who has been described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the nineteenth century.
Work: Emma di Resburgo, melodramma eroico in two acts, first performance 26 June 1819, Teatro San Benedetto, Venice.
Libretto: Gaetano Rossi
Ouverture
Orchestra: Moderntimes_1800
Conductor: Andreas Stoehr

[@hansrichardnohrer2834]

Ein gutes video

[@ekaterinalekkas2356]

Lovely!

[@gioralamokeller8944]

i really like Mr.Meyerbeer and his pieces.

[@wkehl2011]

Meyerbeer is very underrated :-)

[@onofredistefano9145]

A recital was given by Robert Fenton Fowler at Manual Arts High School in March of 1912 (two years after the school opened); the recital included "Addio Terra Nativa --(L'Africana)" by Meyerbeer. It was described as "exceptionally fine..." Just an interesting event in Los Angeles, California at Manual Arts High School. Great selection.

[@giacomomagno398]

the influence of Rossini was everywhere in that era ;)

[@jawasick]

So, a German influenced by an italian? Gess Wagner would'n approve

[@giacomomagno398]

@@jawasick Wagner came after. Mayerbeer went to study music and composition in Italy, guess who was at the time the most famous in the county 😉 in this ouverture you can hear, at the ending, some parts that are identical to the ouverture "La cambiale di matrimonio" and other ones of the Italian composer.

[@jawasick]

@@giacomomagno398 wow, i mean, and what dis wagner thougt about Mayerbeer works? is there some registered abot it?

[@giacomomagno398]

@@jawasick no I don't know about this. But Wagner and his style was another revolution in the second half of 19th century :)

[@wkehl2011]

@@jawasick Wagner wouldn't approve of that because he was super-uppity :-)

[@RWBHere]

Sounds of Auber, mixed with Rossini, and a touch of Offenbach, here, but a little earlier. You can hear how they all influenced one-another Thank-you.

[@harryandruschak2843]

Nineteen (19) Grand Operas, and I do mean GRAND. And here I am, age 70, and I have never seen nor heard a complete opera by him. Overtures and vocal excerpts, of course. As far as the French were concerned, he was a German. As far as the Germans were concerned, he was a Jew. And who has the titanic resources required to put on these operas nowadays, even assuming you can find enough top notch singers to work together? So his works fell into oblivion. And I hear this overture and wish I could here one complete opera of his before I die.

[@JAMESLEVEE]

Harry Andruschak There are all kinds of complete performance of Huguenots, Prophète, L'Africaine all over the place. I'm trying to find the old 1970's revival of Le Prophète at the Met with Marilyn Horne as Fidès.

[@harryandruschak2843]

James Levee Thank you. I guess I have to do more work and dig deep, especially in my wallet :)

[@paacer]

Harry Andruschak Hi, Looking to the right of this upload I see two complete operas of Meyerbeer . Certainly seems a composer worth looking at in more depth .

[@RWBHere]

@@JAMESLEVEE Thank-you. It's a shame that Marilyn Horne was singing though.

[@JAMESLEVEE]

@@RWBHere you perhaps expected her to play the harp in the pit?

[@hektoralis]

2:00

[@joeboyle5864]

How refreshing will be the arrival of Claude Debussy ! Enough already with the pounding !