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Jakob Lenz (opera)

1979 opera by Wolfgang Rihm

Field	Value
name	Jakob Lenz
type	Chamber opera
composer	Wolfgang Rihm
image	Rihm Wolfgang Philharmonie koeln 0806 2007 - cropped.jpg
image_upright	0.95
caption	The composer in 2007
librettist	Michael Fröhling
language	German
based_on
premiere_date
premiere_location	Hamburg State Opera

Jakob Lenz is a one-act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm, written 1977–78 to a libretto by Michael Fröhling after Georg Büchner's 1836 novella Lenz which in turn is based on an incident in the life of the German poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792). Rihm dedicated the opera to his teacher, .

Rihm received for Jakob Lenz the Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn in 1980. TOC

Performance history

The first performance was given at the Hamburg State Opera on 8 March 1979. It was first performed in the United States in 1981 at Indiana University and in New York at the Juilliard Theater in 1987. The UK premiere was in 1987 at the Almeida Festival.

Roles and orchestra

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 8 March 1979
Conductor: Klauspeter Seibel
Lenz	baritone	Richard Salter
Pastor Oberlin	bass	Ude Krekow
	tenor	Peter Haage
Chorus of six solo voices (2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 basses), 2 or 4 children sopranos

The opera is scored for 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), bassoon (doubling contrabassoon), trumpet, trombone, 3 cellos, harpsichord, percussion.

References

Spinola, Julia. (13 November 2014). "So surren Nervenstränge". [[Die Zeit]].
[https://www.universaledition.com/wolfgang-rihm-599/works/jakob-lenz-2945 Work details], [[Universal Edition]]
Hartmann, Bernhard. (30 September 2008). "Ein Experiment zu viel beim Beethovenfest-Finale mit Bamberger Symphonikern". [[General-Anzeiger]].
Rockwell, John. (13 December 1987). "Opera: ''Jakob Lenz'' in City Premiere". [[The New York Times]].
"ENO page on the 2012 production".
Clements, Andrew. (18 April 2012). "''Jakob Lenz'' – review". [[The Guardian]].
"Wolfgang Rihm: ''Jakob Lenz''".

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