Fierrabras (opera)
- King Charles (Bass)
- Emma, his daughter (Soprano)
- Roland, a knight ( bass)
- Ogier, Frankish military leader (tenor )
- Eginhard, knights at the court of Charlemagne ( Tenor)
- Boland, Prince of the Moors ( bass)
- Fierrabras, his son (tenor )
- Florinda, his daughter (Soprano)
- Maragond, in its wake (soprano )
- Brutamonte Moorish leader (Bass)
- Frankish and Moorish knights and warriors, ladies, virgins, people
Fierrabras (D 796; piano version of the overture op 76 ) is a heroic- romantic opera in three acts by Franz Schubert with spoken dialogue with a libretto by Joseph Kupelwieser. Schubert composed the opera in the period from May 25 to October 2, 1823; it was not performed in his lifetime.
Action
Emma, daughter of Charles the Great loves, secretly rejected by her father Knights Eginhard. Also Fierrabras, the son and commander of the Moorish princes Boland, had just successfully pulled against the Karl into battle, Emma loves and is committed also to Christianity. As a prisoner of the heroic Swiss francs Roland Fierrabras comes to the court of Charles, was pardoned, accepted the love affair of Emma and Eginhard, sets himself up for her selfless and friendship with Roland. This loves Fierrabras ' sister Florinda, the breaking away of all Moorish bonds in order to unite with Roland can finally climb with this even the pyre. Eginhard and the Frankish knights to close at the behest of Charles peace with the Moors, but are captured and sentenced to death by Boland. Florinda is committed to the Franks, Eginhard can escape and lead Charles army against the Moors, supported by Fierrabras. The Moors are defeated, still find each other the couple waived only Fierrabras.
Performances
After the failure of the first performance of Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe on 25 October 1823 already scheduled for early 1824 Fierrabras was canceled. Franz Schubert was also no provision for its extensive score, which he had commissioned by Domenico Barbaja, tenant of the Vienna Court Opera, written. From 1829 it was only for concert performance of individual numbers. It was not until February 9, 1897 Felix Mottl strongly engaging in the work of substance stage premiere in Karlsruhe Court Theatre. Many decades later, nearly unabridged musical theater productions have dared who found widely attention:
Trivia
Kupelwieser and Schubert write in their manuscript sources always the Romanized table wrong name variant Fierrabras. The Editorial Board of the New Schubert Edition, however, used the correct ( fier -à -bras ) - and therefore equally meaningful - name form Fierabras.