Movie

Weber: Euryanthe (2020)

• February 14, 2020
• 2h 47m

• Music

Overview

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.

Directors

Christof Loy, Paul Landsmann

Writers

Helmina von Chézy

Starring

Jacquelyn Wagner, Norman Reinhardt, Theresa Kronthaler