Agnes von Hohenstaufen
Music by Gaspare Spontini · libretto by Ernst Raupach · premiered 1829 · at Berlin State Opera
Agnes von Hohenstaufen is a German-language opera in three acts by the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini, the last opera he composed. The German libretto is by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. It was first staged at the Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin, on 12 June 1829. Raupach categorised Agnes von Hohenstaufen as a historical-romantic opera and it is one of a number of German works of the time set in the Middle Ages (others include Weber's Euryanthe, Wagner's Tannhäuser and Lohengrin and Schumann's Genoveva). Agnes also contains many of the features that would be characteristic of French Grand Opera. Spontini substantially reworked the piece for a revival in 1837.
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About the Composer
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and he composed over twenty works.
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Other Operas by Gaspare Spontini
- Li puntigli delle donne (1796)
- La fuga in maschera (1800)
- Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (1802)
- Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs (1805)
- La vestale (1807)
- Fernand Cortez (1809)