Die Opernprobe
Music by Albert Lortzing · premiered 1851
Die Opernprobe (The opera rehearsal), also titled Die vornehmen Dilettanten (The distinguished dilettantes), is a comic opera (Spieloper) in one act by Albert Lortzing, to a libretto which he adapted from a play by Philippe Poisson which had been translated by Johann Friedrich Jünger. The premiere was on 20 January 1851 at the Oper Frankfurt.
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About the Composer
Gustav Albert Lortzing (23 October 1801 – 21 January 1851) was a German composer, librettist, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel.
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Other Operas by Albert Lortzing
- Ali Pascha von Janina (1820)
- Der Wildschütz (1842)
- Der Waffenschmied (1846)