Dornröschen
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Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty) is a 1902 opera by Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto, based on the story of Sleeping Beauty, was by fairy tale writer Elisabeth Ebeling[1] and Bertha Lehrmann-Filhés, mother of Rudolf Lehmann-Filhés , with a dialogue version by Ralf Eger who worked on Franz Lehár's operettas such as Der Zarewitsch.
Recordings
- Dornröschen – Brigitte Fassbaender (speaking role, Dämonia, the wicked fairy), Christina Landshamer (Rosa, Queen of the fairies), Kristiane Kaiser (Sleeping Beauty), Tobias Haaks (Reinhold), Stephanie Hampl (Morphina), Anna Borchers (Quecksilber), Miriam Clark (the Sun), Brigitte Bayer (a forget-me-not), Guibee Yang (a rose), Wolfgang Klose (Vogt of the Ancestral Castle), Jerzy May (Ringold), Barbara Malisch (Armgart). Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Muenchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer. CPO 2011.
References
- ↑ Jarvis, Shawn C.; Blackwell, Jeannine (2001). The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780–1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 241. ISBN 0-8032-1299-2.
Elisabeth Ebeling was an extremely prolific writer of fairy tale literature, including plays, novellas, poems, and anthologies. Little is known about her life: the daughter of a merchant family, she traveled extensively in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and ...