• Seelewig or Das geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel genant Seelewig (The Sacred Forest Poem or Play of Rejoicing called Seelewig) is an opera in...
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    composer of Seelewig (1644), the first German Singspiel. The only other works of his that survive are three Friedens-Gesänge from 1651. Seelewig (1644) CPO...
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    this influence. In 1644, Sigmund Staden produced the first Singspiel, Seelewig, a popular form of German-language opera in which singing alternates with...
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  • though the libretto survives, was possibly the first German opera. Staden's Seelewig (1644) is the first surviving German opera, though more a singspiel with...
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    pastorale", Seelewig, which foreshadows the Singspiel, a genre of German-language opera in which arias alternate with spoken dialogue. Seelewig was a moral...
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    clear Monteverdian influence. In 1644, Sigmund Theophil Staden composed Seelewig, the first opera in German. In 1678 the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg opened...
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    8 Bde. (1641–1649) Das geistlich Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel, genant Seelewig (1644) Poetischer Trichter-die Teutsche Dicht- und Reimkunst ohne Behuf...
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  • madrigali Francesco Sacrati – La finta pazza Sigmund Theophil Staden – Seelewig, the first German singspiel Francesco Cavalli – La Deidamia and L'Ormindo...
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  • Spratlan (1940– ): Life Is a Dream Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607–1665): Seelewig Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): The Canterbury Pilgrims, Much Ado...
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    of Saxe-Zeitz and Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg. Origins of opera Seelewig (1644) of Sigmund Staden, first surviving German opera Pomone (opera) (1671)...
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    in 1974 in Agostino Agazzari's Eumelio and in Sigmund Theophil Staden's Seelewig. In 1980, he appeared in Gluck’s L'île de Merlin. From 1980 to 1984 he...
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    opera in German, Das geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel, genannt Seelewig by Sigmund Theophil Staden on a libretto by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer,...
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