Origins of the German baroque opera and the Goose Market Theatre in Hamburg in the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries

Authors

  • Lucia Becker Carpena Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2008.54942

Keywords:

baroque opera, german baroque opera, Theater am Gänsemarkt (Goose Market Theatre)

Abstract

This article presents the ways of assimilation of the gender “opera” by the german culture in the middle of the seventeenth century and how the local culture influenced contemporary standards, to say: the Florentine, the Venetian and the French operatic styles. Besides, it tries to show the diffusion of opera in the German territories and more specifically, to emphasize the importance of the opening of the Theater am Gänsemarkt (Goose Market Theater) in Hamburg, 1678, as a culmination of this process.

Author Biography

  • Lucia Becker Carpena , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

    Lucia Becker Carpena is a professor of Recorder and Chamber Music at the Department of Music of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), holding a master's degree in Recorder from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany (1995) and a doctorate in Music from UNICAMP/SP (2007). She is primarily dedicated to the practice of historically informed early music and the research and dissemination of contemporary Brazilian repertoire for recorder. She performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and guest professor at events in Brazil and abroad and participated in the recording of the complete works of Bruno Kiefer (1923-1987) for recorder on the CD "Poemas da Terra" (2003), which received a warm reception from Brazilian music critics. Her doctoral thesis, titled “Characterization and Use of the Recorder in the Operas of Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739),” addresses, among other topics, the origins of German Baroque opera, its development and peak with the Theater at the Goose Market in Hamburg, and the role of the recorder in operatic repertoire, exploring themes that are still unknown to Brazilian academic research.

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2008-01-01

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“Origins of the German Baroque Opera and the Goose Market Theatre in Hamburg in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”. 2008. Per Musi, no. 17 (January): 32-40. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2008.54942.

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