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''Henrico Leone'' (also ''Enrico Leone'') is an opera (''dramma per musica'') in three acts composed by
Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani (25 July 165412 February 1728) was an Italian bishop, polymath, diplomat and composer. Education Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto on 25 July 1654. As a boy he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. Steff ...
to an Italian
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by Ortensio Mauro. Based on the life of the powerful German prince
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, the opera was first performed on 30 January 1689 in
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to inaugurate the new royal theatre in the
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(Leine Palace). The opera was performed in German at the
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in Hamburg in 1696 with sets designed by
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, who was inspired by Flemish seascapes. It was also performed in 1697, 1699 and 1716 in
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, the residence of Henry the Lion, in an arrangement by
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and a translation by Gottlieb Fiedler. The opera was revived as ''Enrico Leone'' in Hannover in 1989 when it was performed by the Capella Agostino Steffani (today the
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) to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Hannover State Opera and of the composition. In May of that year the ensemble with the same soloists gave a concert performance of the opera at Boston's
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as part of the
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.Dyer, Richard (30 May 1989)
"Styling a Straitjacket for Steffani"
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Recording

*''Enrico Leone'' – Capella Agostino Steffani conducted by Lajos Rovatkay; Monika Frimmer (Metilda), Ralf Popken (Enrico), Sabine Szameit (Idalba), Nagashima Yoko (Errea), Carola Guber (Eurillo), Dantes Diwiak (Almaro),
Gerhard Faulstich Gerhard Faulstich is a German baritone. After voice studies at the , Gerhard Faulstich was active since 1965 as a concert singer. He made his operatic debut at the in as Leonardo in Wolfgang Fortner's opera '' Bluthochzeit''. In 1981, he joined ...
(Ircano/Demone). Released on LP in 1986, reissued on CD in 1995. Label: Calig


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* {{Authority control Operas by Agostino Steffani 1689 operas Italian-language operas Operas Operas set in the 12th century Operas set in Germany