Octavia (opera)

Octavia
Singspiel in three acts by Reinhard Keiser
Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg, location of the premiere of Octavia
Native title
Die römische Unruhe, oder Die edelmütige Octavia
TranslationThe Roman Unrest, or The Noble-Minded Octavia
LibrettistBarthold Feind
LanguageGerman
Premiere
5 August 1705 (1705-08-05)
Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg

The Roman Unrest, or The Noble-Minded Octavia (German: Die römische Unruhe, oder Die edelmütige Octavia), commonly called Octavia, is a singspiel in three acts by Reinhard Keiser to a German libretto by Barthold Feind [de]. It premiered on 5 August 1705 at the Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg.

The work was written in response to Handel's now-lost Nero, using the same period, material and plot but with Feind substantially improving the libretto. It unites the insidious machinations of the mad emperor Nero, including the assassination plots against his stepsister and wife Octavia, the Pisonian conspiracy and its suppression, with a multicoloured sub-plot of the philosophical instructions of the wise Seneca versus the amusing observations of a clown named Davus. The action is held together by the interweaving of all these plots.

It has an abundance of slippery allusions, grotesque elements like a ballet of the dead, which seems to have been taken from a Shakespearean comedy, but above all shows its librettist's opposition to happy endings beloved of his Hamburg audiences.

Octavia is notable among Keisers's work for its lavish orchestration; it is the first recorded use of horns in an opera, and one aria calls for five bassoons.[1]

A production of Die edelmütige Octavia took place at the Jesuit College Innsbruck as part of the Festival of Old Music in Innsbruck festival in August 2017.[2]

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast, date
(Conductor: )
Claudia Octavia Soprano
Nero Bass
Fabius Tenor
Piso Tenor
Lepidus Tenor
Seneca the Younger Bass
Davus, clown Tenor
King Tiridates Alto castrato
Ormoena Soprano
Livia Soprano
Clelia Soprano

References

Notes

  1. ^ Roberts, John H. Sadie, Stanley (ed.). "Octavia". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
  2. ^ Grosperrin, Jean-Philippe. Vive le Keiser! - Die edelmütige Octavia de Keiser. Diapason No.661, October 2017 p66.

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