Der Vampyr (Lindpaintner)

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Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is an opera (designated as a Romantische Oper) in three acts by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner. The German libretto by Cäsar Max Hegel was based on a work by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, based in turn on a French melodramma by Jean-Charles Emmanuel Nodier, Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche and Achille-François de Jouffroy, ultimately taken from the short novel The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori.

Other early 19th-century operas on the same theme were Silvestro de Palma's I vampiri (1812), Martin-Joseph Mengal's Le vampire (1826), and Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr of the same year as Lindpaintner's opera (1828).

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[edit] Performance history

The first performance took place at the Hoftheater in Stuttgart on 21 September 1828. It proved the most successful of the composer's operas.

Lindpaintner made a revised version of the opera in 1850, when he put recitatives in the place of the originals spoken dialogue.

[edit] Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, March 29, 1828
(Conductor: -)
Ignerand, Count Port d'Amour bass
Isolde, Ignerand's daughter soprano
Hypolit, Count Damartin, Isolde's bridegroom tenor
Count Aubri, the vampire bass
Balbine, Isolde's maid mezzo-soprano
Etienne, gardener to Port d'Amour bass
Morton bass
Lorette, Morton's daughter soprano
Lavigne, her bridegroom tenor

[edit] Synopsis

The scene of the action is in the south of France (not Scotland), though in general it follows the same story as Marschner's Der Vampyr.

[edit] Sources

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