Weber: Euryanthe
MovieTitle | Weber: Euryanthe |
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Release date | Feb 14, 2020 |
Genre | Music |
Director | Christof Loy , Paul Landsmann |
Production country | US |
Run time | 167 min. |
Webers 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 characterizes 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 operas original version with a few, very minor cuts.