Franz Joseph Haydn: Philemon And Baucis (Profil Audio CD)

Philemon and Baucis
Jupiter's journey to earth

Philemon: Manuel Warwitz
Baucis: Nathalie Vinzent
Aret: Bernhard Berchtold
Narcissa: Ulrike Hofbauer
Salzburger Kammerchor
Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner

•For Haydn’s bicentenary, Profil are delighted to release the world première recording of the puppet opera Philemon and Baucis.

•The opera was supposedly composed and performed to mark a visit the Empress Maria Theresia paid to Prince Miklós Eszterházy, Haydn’s once employers. It is also said to have marked the opening of the puppet theatre.
The music of Joseph Haydn's three-section German puppet opera Philemon and Baucis is fragmentary. The middle part however, in which the true action takes place, has survived in almost complete form