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4 unusual facts about Der Vampyr


Der Vampyr

Wagner, in fact, conducted Der Vampyr when at Würzburg in 1833.

Siegmund Nimsgern, Carole Farley, Anastasia Tomaszewska-Schepis, Josef Protschka, Armando Caforio, Galina Pisarenko, Martin Engel, Chorus and Orchestra Sinfonica of Radio Italiana, conductor Günter Neuhold.

Lyric Opera of Los Angeles

LOLA (as it is also known) has since put on several premiere productions including Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr and Daniel Auber's Manon Lescaut.

William Hawes

Winter's Interrupted Sacrifice, Mozart's Così fan tutte, Marschner's Der Vampyr and other important works were also brought out under his auspices.


Opera in German

Weber's most important successor in the field of Romantic opera was Heinrich Marschner, who further explored the Gothic and the supernatural in works such as Der Vampyr (1828) and Hans Heiling (1833).

Samuel James Arnold

Other foreign operas of note, the Tarare of Antonio Salieri, The Freebooters by Ferdinando Paer, The Robber's Bride by Ferdinand Ries, and Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr, were afterwards produced at the English Opera House for the first time in England.


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