Germanicus

Germanicus is an opera by Georg Philipp Telemann, to a libretto in German by the poet Christine Dorothea Lachs, fourth daughter of Nicolaus Adam Strungk of Dresden. The opera was written in 1704 and revised in 1710. It was performed in 1704, and then again Hamburg in 1706, the opera written during his time in Leipzig as a student. The plot centers around the love triangle between the Germanic tribal leader Arminius, Agrippina the Younger, and Claudius. It is supposedly one of the twenty operas that Telemann wrote for the opera house in the Oper am Brühl in Leipzig. The opera was believed lost until 45 arias were discovered in a Frankfurt archive by Michael Maul. The opera was premiered with spoken text between arias at the Bachfest Leipzig 2007 and at the 2010 Magdeburg Telemann Festival under conductor Gotthold Schwarz. A recording was released by cpo in 2011.

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Georg Philipp Telemann (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfiːlɪp ˈteːləman]; 24 March [O.S. 14 March] 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time, and he was compared favourably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg,…

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Other Operas by Georg Philipp Telemann

• Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon  (1719)
• Der geduldige Socrates  (1721)
• Emma und Eginhard  (1728)
• Flavius Bertaridus  (1729)
• Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho  (1761)