Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg.
Reinhard Keiser, the „Honour of Germany“, baroque contemporary of Handel and Telemann, composed more than 100 operas – very popular at his times but largely.
Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg.
The decision to open die series with a work by one of Germany's leading opera composers of the past, Reinhard Keiser, seems a natural and sensible one.
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Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg..
Die großmütige Tomyris
Werkdaten
Originaltitel:
Die großmütige Tomyris
Titelblatt des Librettos von 1717
Form:
Oper in drei Akten
Originalsprache:
Deutsch, Italienisch
Musik:
Reinhard Keiser
Libretto:
Johann Joachim Hoë
Literarische Vorlage:
Domenico Lalli
Uraufführung:
1717
Ort der Uraufführung:
Hamburg
Ort und Zeit der Handlung:
Zentralasien nördlich des Iran im 6.
Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Personen
Tomyris, verwitwete Königin der Massageten, verliebt in Tigranes (Sopran)
Tigranes / Archinto, oberster Feldherr der Massageten, verliebt in Meroë (Tenor)
Meroë / Magus, Prinzessin von Persien, Tochter des toten Königs Cyrus, Geliebte des Tigranes / Archinto (Sopran)
Latyrus, ihr Vertrauter (Tenor)
Policares, König von Lydien, verliebt in Tomyris (Tenor)
Doraspe, König von Damasco, verliebt in Tomyris (Bass)
