Iphigenia in Aulis (Graun)

Iphigenia in Aulis is a German opera by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Leopold Villati premiered 1728, then 1731 at the Gänsemarkt opera Hamburg. Johann Georg Sulzer declared the opera an example of Handel and Graun attaining the sublime.^[1]

Graun returned to the same subject two decades later for his Ifigenia in Aulide (3 acts, 1748)

Recordings

complete - Matthias Dähling, Andreas Heinemeyer, Santa Karnite, Mirko Ludwig, Genevieve Tschumi, Dominik Wörner, Hanna Zumsande, barockwerk hamburg, Ira Hochman 2CD CPO recorded 2021 released 2023

References

^ Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 Catherine Jones · 2014 p 257 Sulzer cites Handel's setting of Dryden's 'Alexander's Feast' and Graun's opera Iphigenia in Aulis (1728) to support his claim that these composers had frequently attained the sublime in their music ('Erhaben', in Johann Georg Sulzer, ...

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[1] Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 Catherine Jones · 2014 p 257 Sulzer cites Handel's setting of Dryden's 'Alexander's Feast' and Graun's opera Iphigenia in Aulis (1728) to support his claim that these composers had frequently attained the sublime in their music ('Erhaben', in Johann Georg Sulzer, ...

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