Opera in the Repertoire · Classical
L'isle déserte
premiered 1779
L’isle déserte is a 1779 opera comique by Franz Ignaz Beck to a libretto by the Comte d'Ossun after Metastasio's libretto l'isola disabitata of 1754, coincidentally reset in Italian by Haydn in the same year in the same year as Beck. The libretto had been translated into French already in 1759. Haydn also composed an entirely different singspiel version Die wüste Insel. The work was never performed during Beck's lifetime, and recorded for the first time only in 2021 with La Stagione Frankfurt.
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