Der Berggeist
Romantische Oper in zwei Akten
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- Ouverture
- Szene (Rübezahl, Der Geist, Chor der Gnomen)
- Chor der Jünglinge und Mädchen
- Lied (Anne, Chor)
- Septett (Jacob und Marthe, Anne und Heinrich, Rübezahl, Konrad und Hanns)
- Arie (Jacob)
- Rezitativ und Arie (Anne)
- Duett (Anne, Heinrich)
- Finale 1. Akt (Die Nixen, Pux, Meerungeheuer)
- Lied der Gnomen (Url, Chor)
- Terzett (Jacob, Anne, Heinrich)
- Terzett (Jacob, Konrad, Marthe)
- Arie (Pux)
- Arie (Heinrich)
- Chor der Gnomen
- Szene (Anne)
- Chor (Chor der Gnomen, Anne, Eine Stimme, Heinrichs Stimme)
- Rezitativ und Arie (Rübezahl, Chor)
- Orchesterstück
- Nachtwächter
- Finale
Contents
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Composer
Franz Danzi
| 1763-1826
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Songwriter / Librettist
Karl von Lohbauer
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Preface writer
Joachim Kremer
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Preface writer
Bernd Schmitt
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Choir
Kammerchor Stuttgart
The Kammerchor Stuttgart is regarded as one of the best ensembles of its kind. Over its fifty-year existence, Frieder Bernius has developed the choir into an exceptional ensemble acclaimed by audiences and press alike. This has led to invitations for the choir to perform at all the important European festivals. In Germany the chamber choir performs at festivals and in concert halls in repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. Frieder Bernius and his ensemble have received numerous accolades for their contribution to new music. The Kammerchor Stuttgart has made over 80 CDs and LPs, numerous of which have been awarded international recording prizes (including the Edison award, Diapason d’or, Gramophone Choice, Classical Internet Award, International Classical Music Award, and German Record Critics’ Award prizes). The International Federation for Choral Music has invited the ensemble to sing at the 1st, 4th and 10th World Symposia on Choral Music in Vienna, Sydney and Seoul. Regular tours of North America and Asia since 1988 and a South America tour reflect the Kammerchor Stuttgart’s international reputation. Since 1984 the top ensemble has also been invited to Israel biennially. Personal details
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Orchestra
Hofkapelle Stuttgart
The Hofkapelle Stuttgart, founded in 2006 by Frieder Bernius to complement the Barockorchester Stuttgart, concentrates on repertoire from the 19th century performed on authentic instruments. One of its main focusses is the rediscovery of music-historical treasures, particularly works from the south-west German region (by composers such as Kalliwoda, Knecht and Holzbauer). The Hofkapelle and Barockorchester Stuttgart regularly perform at international festivals (Rome, Salzburg, Göttingen, Dresden, etc.). CDs made by both groups have received many awards: the Missa Dei Patris by Jan Dismas Zelenka was nominated for the Cannes Classical Award, and the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Ein Sommernachtstraum [A Midsummer Night’s Dream] by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was featured by Rondo magazine and awarded the Star of the Month prize by Fono Forum magazine. Mozart’s Requiem received the Diapason d’or de l’année 2003, Johann Gottlieb Naumann’s opera Aci e Galatea was named opera recording of the year in Opernwelt magazine and Bach’s Easter Oratorio included in the Quarterly Critics’ Choice of the German Record Critics’ Award. The group’s recording of Bach’s B Minor Mass was Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. Personal details
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Conductor
Frieder Bernius
| 1947Frieder Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire. Personal details
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Conductor
Frieder Bernius
| 1947Frieder Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire. Personal details
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Soloist - soprano
Sarah Wegener
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Soloist - soprano
Vincent Frisch
Vincent Frisch is a member of the boys' choir collegium iuvenum Stuttgart (cis). The choir was founded in 1989. Working with around about 180 boys and young men, the choir’s musical aims are to perpetuate the heritage and riches of sacred choral music from many epochs at the highest artistic level. As well as this, choral singing contributes greatly to the personal development of the singers. Friedemann Keck, a retired university music director, school and church musician, has directed the choir since 1990. The choir is supported by the Friends of the collegium iuvenum Stuttgart e.V. Personal details
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Soloist - mezzo-soprano
Sophie Harmsen
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Soloist - tenor
Colin Balzer
Canadian born Colin Balzer studied singing with David Meek in Canada and Edith Wiens in Germany. He has participated in master classes given by Helmut Deutsch, Robert Tear, Elly Ameling, Brigitte Fassbaender and Christoph Prégardien. Colin Balzer has won a range of international prizes, and has embarked on a busy international concert schedule with a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Penderecki. He has been heard at Festivals in Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence and at the Early Music Festivals in Boston and Vancouver, and he regularly performs with various Canadian orchestras. He has also enjoyed considerable success as a lieder singer. He recorded his first CD, Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, with Hartmut Höll. Personal details
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Soloist - tenor
Tilman Lichdi
Tilman Lichdi grew up near Heilbronn; he started singing lessons with Alois Treml at the age of 18 and studied trumpet for four years with Günther Beetz in Mannheim. In 1999, he decided to study singing with Charlotte Lehmann in Würzburg, graduating with distinction. Tilman Lichdi is in demand worldwide for both concerts and opera roles. Personal details
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Soloist - tenor
Robert Buckland
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Soloist - baritone
Christian Immler
Christian Immler began his musical career in the Tölzer Knabenchor; he studied singing in Munich, Frankfurt and at the Department of Opera Studies of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London with Prof. Rudolf Piernay. In 2001, Christian Immler was awarded first prize in the Concours Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris. Christian Immler has performed in opera productions of the Early Music Festival in Boston, in Tel Aviv, Paris, Vienna, and at the Potsdam Opera. He also sang in the world premiere of Paul Clarke’s The Weather Man for Opera North. Most recently, he sang at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and gave his debut at the BBC Proms in London. Christian Immler is passionately interested in the lied repertoire, with particular focus on the works of composers who were forced into exile. He was appointed Professor of Voice at the Conservatoire Lausanne/Fribourg. Personal details
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Soloist - baritone
Patrick Pobeschin
Patrick Pobeschin studied singing at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Dunja Vejzovic; further important influences came from Maria Sofianska, Carl Davis, Julia Hamari and Kathrin Prick. He has sung as a guest artist at the Aalto-Theater Essen, the Dortmund Theater, the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and at the theaters in Regensburg and Heidelberg, and is a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Mainz. Pobeschin also sang in the premiere of the contemporary opera Melancholia by Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1954) at the Opéra de Paris. He also performed this role at Den Nye Opera in Stavanger, Norway. Personal details
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Soloist - baritone
Philip Niederberger
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Soloist - baritone
Daniel Ochoa
The baritone Daniel Ochoa from Leipzig was a member of the Gewandhaus Children’s and Youth Choir. He studied singing with Anthony Baldwin and Hanns-Joachim Beyer. He is working closely with Michael Rhodes. Daniel Ochoa has performed in renowned concert halls; in addition, he has been invited to sing at various festivals. Concert tours have taken him to many European countries as well as to Japan. Ochoa was awarded first prize at the Albert Lortzing Competition in Leipzig, and received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Foundation. Personal details
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Narrator
Bernd Schmitt
Reviews
Frieder Bernius hat mit Kammerchor und Hofkapelle Stuttgart [...] die Weltersteinspielung gewagt. Die Rollen – und das sind ziemlich viele! – sind solide mit jungen Sängern besetzt [...].
ich-habe-gehoert.blogspot.de, 3. September 2016
Frieder Bernius directs with imagination and attention to detail. He has been doing great things in Stuttgart and continues the list of accomplishment here. He has a fine, youthful cast around him, equipped with refined, clear often Mozartian-sounding voices. […] This is a very enjoyable romantic opera, deeply rooted in folkloric soil, and splendidly performed.
Jonathan Woolf, musicweb-international – Recording of the month, März 2014
Frieder Bernius […] setzt sich mit seiner ganzen dirigentischen Kompetenz für diese Wiederentdeckung ein, hält das junge Solistenensemble zu vorbildlicher Textverständlichkeit an, überzeug durchweg bei der Wahl der Tempi.
Frederik Hanssen, Opernwelt, Juli 2013
Die Einspielung macht Lust auf mehr […]
Mannheimer Morgen, 25. Juli 2013
Ein Atout der Aufführung ist - neben dem wie immer hervorragenden Stuttgarter Kammerchor - die exzellente Stuttgarter Hofkapelle.
Rémy Franck, pizzicato, Juni 2013
Es lohnt sich – nicht nur für Raritätensammler!
Benjamin Künzel, klassik.com, 4. August 2013
[…] schwingend und überzeugend dargeboten […]
G. Schunk, Das Opernglas, 5/2013
Preisfrage: Welche deutsche Oper darf man als erste romantisch nennen? Inbegriff des Genres bleibt natürlich Carl Maria von Webers geniale Förstermoritat "Der Freischütz" (1821), aber schon E.T.A. Hoffmanns Märchenspiel "Undine" (1816) wäre ein guter Kandidat. Nun bringt Frieder Bernius, unermüdlich im Aufspüren verschollener Schlüsselwerke, einen neuen Namen ins Spiel: Franz Danzi (1763 bis 1826), der beim berühmten Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler lernte, in München und Mannheim alle Tontricks übte und seine Laufbahn als Hofkapellmeister in Stuttgart - wo er auch Weber förderte - und Karlsruhe beschloss. Sensibel für die Wendungen des Zeitgeschmacks, erkannte Danzi früh, dass antike Stoffe, Serail-Eskapaden und französischer Pomp aus der Mode gerieten. Schon 1813, während der napoleonischen Besatzung, brachte er ein Singspiel über den urdeutschen Kraftkerl Rübezahl heraus. Gemütliche Melodien wechseln darin mit dräuender Schicksalsmacht; Geister und Nixen verbreiten Gruselstimmung und jagen mitunter die Tonarten im Rösselsprung, bis nach Blitz, Feuer und Melodrama die Welt von Menschen und Dämonen wieder einigermaßen im Lot ist. Die leicht gekürzte Ersteinspielung des Zweiakters "Der Berggeist" ist eine kleine Großtat, nicht zuletzt weil so ein weiterer musikalischer Ausgangspunkt jenes Komponisten nachzuerleben ist, der im Mai 1813 überhaupt erst geboren wurde: Richard Wagner.
Johannes Saltzwedel, KulturSPIEGEL 5/2013
Die Hofkapelle und der Kammerchor Stuttgart haben jetzt den […] Zweiakter unter Frieder Bernius aufgenommen – und zwar mit Sinn für die natürlichen und übernatürlichen Effekte von Libretto und Partitur. Etwas für das Raritätenkabinett.
Augsburger Allgemeine, 3. Mai 2013
Musikalisch erinnert diese Oper in ihrem frischen, unverkrampften, auf Natürlichkeit und Volkstümlichkeit achtenden Tonfall ebenfalls an Weber, aber eben auch an Schubert oder Schumann. Bernius lässt den Melodiker Danzi ganz zu seinem Recht kommen […]. Zuverlässig wie gewohnt der Kammerchor Stuttgart, und der Hofkapelle Stuttgart gelingt eine schlüssige Interpretation dieser Musik […].
Frank Pommer, Die Rheinpfalz, CD des Monats, 20. April 2013
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