2390.300 Jahre Oper in Hamburg: 1678–1978. Hamburg: Christians, 1977. 191p.
ISBN 3-7672-0528-9. ML1729.8 .H192 H32.
A collection of essays by various authors, including a study of the period
1740–1840 (connecting with the preceding entry) by Kurt Stephenson; a sum-
mary of the preceding entry by its author, with some updating; the postwar era
to 1977, by Erich Lüth; a history of the 1898–1943 period by Hans Worbs;
and a list of key dates over the 300-year period by Joachim E. Wenzel.- Busch, Max W., and Peter Dannenberg, eds. Die Hamburgische Staatsoper.
Zurich: M&T Verlag, 1988–1990. 3v. ISBN 3-7265-6013-0. ML1729.8 .H2
H353.
V.1, 1678–1945; v.2, 1945–1988; v.3, Sonderausgabe. V.1 has 11 essays by
various authors, dealing with the period 1678–1738; the Stadttheater of
1827–1897; conductors Mahler and Klemperer; Lotte Lehmann; wartime
destruction; and ballet 1827–1944. There are 17 essays in v.2 by various
authors, including material on the directors Rennert, Heinz Titjen, and Rolf
Liebermann; singers, conductors, ballet, and designers. Also a chronology.
Neither volume has notes, bibliography, or index. - Meyer, Reinhart. Die Hamburger Oper.Munich: Kraus, 1980–1984. 4v. ISBN
3-601-00136-5. ML48 .H36.
V.1–3 consist of facsimiles of libretti for performances of 1678–1730. V.4 is a
commentary. It presents a useful assortment of facts in topical chapters, then a
list of operas performed with casts and references to writings, notes on the
scenes, etc. Index of librettists and literature about them, name index, bibliog-
raphy covering the contemporary building. - Schröder, Dorothea. Zeitgeschichte auf der Opernbühne: Barockes Musikthe-
ater in Hamburg im Dienst von Politik und Diplomatie (1690–1745).Göttin-
gen: Vandernhoeck und Ruprecht, 1998. vi, 366p. ISBN 3-525-27900-0.
ML1729.8 .H19 S34.
The musical setting in the light of the political situation: censorship, financing,
the opera, the audience, festivals and entertainments. Also accounts of perfor-
mances and reception of individual operas. Bibliography of primary and sec-
ondary materials, about 150 items; chronology; name index. - Braun, Werner. Vom Remter zum Gänsemarkt: Aus der Frühgeschichte der
alten Hamburger Oper, 1677–1697. Saarbrücker Studien zur Musikwis-
senschaft, n.s., 1. Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1987.
207p. ISBN 3-9250-3617-2. ML1729.8 .H19 B7.
Considers the sources and problems to be dealt with in the writing of a defini-
tive history of German opera in Hamburg. Among the topics are libretti,
chronology, performance conditions, stage technique, sacred opera, and opera
in other cities. Analysis of Orontes (1677) and operas by Johann Sigismund
Kusser (Cousser), who was music director from 1694 to 1696. Bibliography of
about 300 items, index.
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