Der Vampyr (Lindpaintner)
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Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is an opera (designated as a Romantische Oper) in three acts by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner. The German libretto by Cäsar Max Hegel was based on a work by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, based in turn on a French melodramma by Jean-Charles Emmanuel Nodier, Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche and Achille-François de Jouffroy, ultimately taken from the short novel The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori.
Other early 19th-century operas on the same theme were Silvestro de Palma's I vampiri (1812), Martin-Joseph Mengal's Le vampire (1826), and Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr of the same year as Lindpaintner's opera (1828).
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[edit] Performance history
The first performance took place at the Hoftheater in Stuttgart on 21 September 1828. It proved the most successful of the composer's operas.
Lindpaintner made a revised version of the opera in 1850, when he put recitatives in the place of the originals spoken dialogue.
[edit] Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, March 29, 1828 (Conductor: -) |
|---|---|---|
| Ignerand, Count Port d'Amour | bass | |
| Isolde, Ignerand's daughter | soprano | |
| Hypolit, Count Damartin, Isolde's bridegroom | tenor | |
| Count Aubri, the vampire | bass | |
| Balbine, Isolde's maid | mezzo-soprano | |
| Etienne, gardener to Port d'Amour | bass | |
| Morton | bass | |
| Lorette, Morton's daughter | soprano | |
| Lavigne, her bridegroom | tenor |
[edit] Synopsis
The scene of the action is in the south of France (not Scotland), though in general it follows the same story as Marschner's Der Vampyr.
[edit] Sources
- Amadeus Almanac
- Brown, Clive (1992), 'Vampyr, Der' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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