Mascagni, Pietro: Freund Fritz (L’amico Fritz) (1891) 90'
Lyric comedy in three acts
Music Text Deutsch
Libretto by P. Suardon (= Nicola Daspuro); German version by Max Kalbeck (I,G)
Scoring
S,M,2T,Bar,B; mixed chorus; 2.picc.2(II=corA).2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):I=SD/tam-t; II=BD/cym-harp-strings; on-stage: ob; 2hn.thn.2tpt.2crt.4trbn.euph.2tuba; off-stage: solo vln (This work is published and distributed for stage performances by Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock in Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and in German speaking Switzerland.)
For full details on this stagework, including synopsis and roles, please visit our Opera section.
World Premiere
10/31/1891
Teatro Costanzi, Roma
Fernando De Lucia, Emma Calvé, Paul Lhéri and others / Rodolfo Ferrari
Recommended Recording
Roberto Alagna / Angela Gheorghiu / Laura Polverelli / George Petean u.a. / Chor & Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Alberto Veronesi
DG 477 8358
Lyric comedy in three acts
Music Text Deutsch
Libretto by P. Suardon (= Nicola Daspuro); German version by Max Kalbeck (I,G)
Scoring
S,M,2T,Bar,B; mixed chorus; 2.picc.2(II=corA).2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):I=SD/tam-t; II=BD/cym-harp-strings; on-stage: ob; 2hn.thn.2tpt.2crt.4trbn.euph.2tuba; off-stage: solo vln (This work is published and distributed for stage performances by Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock in Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and in German speaking Switzerland.)
For full details on this stagework, including synopsis and roles, please visit our Opera section.
World Premiere
10/31/1891
Teatro Costanzi, Roma
Fernando De Lucia, Emma Calvé, Paul Lhéri and others / Rodolfo Ferrari
Recommended Recording
Roberto Alagna / Angela Gheorghiu / Laura Polverelli / George Petean u.a. / Chor & Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Alberto Veronesi
DG 477 8358
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