Language Italian | ||
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Composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Similar Theodor Körner, Germania, Der Roland von Berlin, Agnes von Hohenstaufen, Die Rheinnixen | ||
Arminio or Chi la Dura la Vince is an opera ("Dramma musicale") – and the earliest extant opera composed in Salzburg – in three acts about the Germanic military hero Arminius, and the only survived opera composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. composed in 1690–92 ca. with an Italian libretto probably by Francesco Maria Raffaelini. The manuscript score is kept in Carolino Augusteum of Salzburg.
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Synopsis
The opera is about the story of the wife of Arminius, Thusnelda (Segesta) who becomes prisoner of germanicus.
Recordings
H.I.F. Biber: Arminio, Salzburger Hofmusik, Il Dolcimelo.
Gotthold Schwarz / Bernhard Landauer / Irena Troupova / Regina Schwarzer / Otto Rastbichler / Hermann Oswald / Barbara Schlick / Gerd Türk / Xenia Meijer / Florian Mehltretter / Gerd Kenda / Markus Forster