Der geduldige Socrates (TVWV 21:9, Hamburg 1721) is a comic German-language opera in three acts by Georg Philipp Telemann to a libretto by Johann Ulrich von König.
| Der geduldige Socrates | |
|---|---|
| Comic opera by Georg Philipp Telemann | |
 The composer, c. 1745 | |
| Translation | The patient Socrates |
| Librettist | Johann Ulrich von König |
| Language | German |
| Premiere | 1721 Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg |
The opera was Telemann's first full length purely comic opera,[1] and was performed at the Oper am Gänsemarkt, while Reinhard Keiser was still running the opera.
The professional UK premiere was in 1974 by Kent Opera conducted by Roger Norrington, with April Cantelo, Thomas Lawlor and Linda Esther Gray among the cast.[2]
Recordings
edit- Der geduldige Socrates – Jozsef Gregor, Éva Vámossy, Katalin Farkas, Éva Bártfai-Barta, Julia Paszthy, Guy de Mey, Paul Esswood, István Gáti, Capella Savaria Nicholas McGegan, Hungaroton 1987
References
edit- ^ Donald Jay Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams, A Short History of Opera (203), p. 182: "He excelled in the comic style, as evidenced from his first full-length comic opera, Der geduldige Socrates (1721), his one-act serenata, Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (1761), and his intermezzo, Pimpinone (1725),"
- ^ Platt N. Making Music. Ashford, Pemble Productions, 2001, p. 70.
