Manuel Venegas
Manuel Venegas is an 1897 unfinished opera by Hugo Wolf to libretto by Moritz Hoernes after Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's El niño de la bola (Christ Child with globus cruciger).[1] Only the first act was completed. 34 minutes of the work were recorded on the Capriccio label in 1991 on the album Wolf: Vocal Works[2] and re-issued in 2004 on Hugo Wolf: Orchesterlieder.[3]
Cast
[edit]- Carlos, a retired captain, baritone – Oliver Widmer
- Don Trinidad, the priest, bass – Cornelius Hauptmann
- Manuel Venegas, tenor – Josef Protschka
- Morisco, a mule driver, tenor – Kor-Jan Dusseljee
- Soledad Arregui, mezzo-soprano – Mitsuko Shirai
- Vitriolo, the pharmacist, tenor – Christoph Späth
- Württemberg Chamber Choir, Dieter Kurz[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Christopher Anderson (2013) [2006]. Selected Writings of Max Reger. Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 9781135480042.
... Hoernes's libretto based on Alarcón's El niño de la bola as the three-act opera Manuel Venegas. Five scenes from Act I were completed in 1897, but the project did not advance further
- ^ Lionel Salter (May 1991). "Wolf: Vocal Works". Gramophone (recording review). Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ^ Adrian Corleonis. Hugo Wolf: Manuel Venegas, opera at AllMusic
- ^ "Manuel Venegas (opera)", Capriccio, classicalarchives.com
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