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CARL MARIA VON WEBER: PETER SCHMOLL UND SEINE NACHBARN
ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · ROBERTO PATERNOSTRO
CARL MARIA VON WEBER(1786 – 1826)
PETER SCHMOLL UND SEINE NACHBARN
PETER SCHMOLL AND HIS NEIGHBOURS
Komische Oper in 2 Akten (1802) / Comic Opera in Two Acts
Libretto nach dem Roman von / Libretto after the novel by Carl Gottlob Cramer
Gesangstexte von / Song texts by Willy Werner Göttig
Peter Schmoll, ein reicher Bankier - PAUL ARMIN EDELMANN
Martin Schmoll, sein Bruder und Teilhaber – THORSTEN GRÜMBEL
Minette, Martins Tochter – ILONA REVOLSKAYA
Karl Pirkner – SEBASTIAN KOHLHEPP
Hans Bast, Peters Faktotum – CHRISTOPH SEIDL
Niklas, ein Bauer - JOHANNES BAMBERGER
ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ROBERTO PATERNOSTRO, Dirigent / conductor
‘Yesterday, with genuine pleasure I attended a kind rehearsal of the opera ‘Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn’ by my pupil Mr. Carl Maria von Weber, and I cannot help attesting with truth, […] that I consider it only right and proper that I recommend this, my favourite pupil, be welcomed by the entire musical and sensitive world’.Johann Michael Haydn, 1802
After the artful overture, which may make an absolute claim to autonomy, Peter Schmollshows a colourful succession of a total of 20 numbers, as was customary in the musical comedies composed in this manner for about three decades. In Peter Schmoll, we see glimpses of the ‘typical’ Weber, based primarily on the melodic idea, such as we know him today from Der Freischütz, written in 1817.
