Des Matrosen Heimkehr
Music by Franz von Suppé · libretto by Anton Langer · premiered 1885 · at Hamburg State Opera
Des Matrosen Heimkehr or Il Ritorno del Marinaio is a romantic opera in two acts by Dalmatian composer Franz von Suppé to a libretto by the late Anton Langer (died 1879). It was premiered at the Stadttheater, Hamburg, on 4 May 1885. The opera was a success but quickly forgotten in Germany, and then the original score of the opera was lost in bombing in 1943. Croatian conductor Adriano Martinolli d'Arcy managed to retrieve a copy in an American archive in 2007, and the opera was revived in an Italian translation by the Croatian National Theatre in Split in 2013 and recorded by the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka in 2016.
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About the Composer
Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas, including the first operetta to a German libretto. Some of them remain in the repertory, particularly in German-speaking countries, and he composed a substantial quantity of church music, but he is now chiefly known for his overtures, which remain popular in the concert hall and on record. Among the best-known are Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry, Morning,…
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Other Operas by Franz von Suppé
- Die schöne Galathée
- Fatinitza (1861)
- Leichte Kavallerie (1866)
- Boccaccio (1878)
- Donna Juanita (1880)
- Dichter und Bauer (1900)