Das Nachtlager in Granada (The Night Camp in Granada) is a romantic opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 in two acts by Conradin Kreutzer

Conradin Kreutzer

Conradin Kreutzer or Kreuzer was a German composer and conductor. His works include the opera for which he is remembered, Das Nachtlager in Granada, and Der Verschwender, both produced in 1834.Kreutzer owes his fame almost exclusively to Das Nachtlager in Granada , which kept the stage for...

. The libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 is written by Karl Johann Braun von Braunthal based on Johann Friedrich Kind

Johann Friedrich Kind

Johann Friedrich Kind was a German dramatist, most famous for writing the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz .-Biography:...

’s drama Das Nachtlager von Granada.

Performance history

The premiere of a first version with spoken dialogue was performed on January 13, 1834

1834 in music

- Events :* Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.*Ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut at the Paris Opéra's Salle Le Peletier.-Classical music:*Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy...

 at Theater in der Josefstadt

Theater in der Josefstadt

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, Vienna

Vienna

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. The second version (recitatives) was performed on March 9, 1837

1837 in music

- Events :*June 11 – Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music*Pauline Viardot makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.- Published popular music :...

 at Theater am Kärntnertor

Theater am Kärntnertor

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.

It was subsequently given in London

London

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 at the former Prince's Theatre on 13 May 1840, and in New York

New York

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 on 15 December 1862.

There is a recording available from premiereopera.net of a performance in Freiberg on October 19, 2002, conducted by Georg Cristoph Sandmann.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, January 13, 1834 (Conductor: Conradin Kreutzer)
Gabriele, Ambrosio’s niece	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...	Anna Segatta
Gomez, a young shepherd	tenor Tenor The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...	Josef Emminger
A hunter	baritone Baritone Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...	Karl-Josef Pöck
Count Otto, a German nobleman	bass	Josef Preisinger
Vasco, a shepherd	tenor	Rott
Pedro, a shepherd	bass	Koch
Ambrosio, an old shepherd	bass	Borschitzky
An Alcalde Alcalde Alcalde , or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo and judge of first instance of a town...	baritone
Hunters, servants, shepherds and shepherdesses, magistrates

Sources

• Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5

External links

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