Schumann: Genoveva, original version

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genoveva, Op. 81
Schumann’s autograph version, 1848/50
LIVE
Dresdner Musikfestspiele, 4 June 2023
Carolyn Sampson, soprano | GENOVEVA
Marcel Beekman, tenor | GOLO
Johannes Weisser, baritone | SIEGFRIED
Marie Seidler, mezzo-soprano | MARGARETHA
Yorck Felix Speer, bass | HIDULFUS
Cornelius Uhle, bass | DRAGO
Marcell Krokovay, bass | BALTHASAR
Zacharias Galaviz, baritone | CASPAR
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Erwin Ortner, Chorus master
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra
on period instruments
Aapo Häkkinen, Conductor
Kristiina Helin, Visual dramatisation
IC-98, Animations
0:30 Ouverture
09:04 Erster Akt
41:23 Zweiter Akt
1:10:44 Dritter Akt
1:39:47 Vierter Akt

[@davidpescod7573]

A brilliant performance of Schumann’s only opera, an opera rarely performed, so it was a great pleasure to hear yesterday’s performance by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Choir

[@robertocarvalhodemagalhaes3648]

Marvelous performance!

[@judithnelson1665]

What a wonder-and great performances by all. The extraordinary Third Act shows this to be the most musically advanced (and experimental) opera of the time. Bravo Schumann, thanks Helsinki Baroque. "Linda Siegel writes of the opera that 'Schumann's preoccupation with the interplay between his characters, incidentally, led him to adopt a system of musical imagery amazingly advanced for the time: the highly complex web of musical symbols in Genoveva cannot be found in Wagner until Tristan."

[@papagen00]

Pity no English translation.

[@robertocarvalhodemagalhaes3648]

Time to learn German.