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Alfred (B. 16) is a heroic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's first opera and the only one he composed to a German text. The libretto, by Carl Theodor Körner, was set by Friedrich von Flotow (as Alfred der Große), based on the story of the English king Alfred the Great.
Alfred is a sung stage work about Alfred the Great with music by Thomas Arne and libretto by David Mallet and James Thomson. The work was initially devised as a masque in 1740 and was first performed at Cliveden , country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales , on 1 August 1740 to commemorate the accession of his grandfather George I and the ...
When he was writing his first opera, 29-year-old Dvořák had already been a violist with the Provisional Theatre Orchestra for eight years. Performing various operas from past and present on an almost daily basis had a major impact on his career as a composer.
Alfred (B. 16) is a heroic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's first opera and the only one he composed to a German text. The libretto, by Carl Theodor Körner, was set by Friedrich von Flotow (as Alfred der Große), based on the story of the English king Alfred the Great.
The list of operas created by the composer Antonín Dvořák. Composers | Genres | Operas | Libretti | Arias | About: Composer: Antonín Dvořák 1841 - 1904 : List of operas ... 1841 - 1904 : List of operas: Alfred - Czech . First performance at Olomouc on 10 December 1938 ; Král a uhlíř - Czech . First performance at Praha N on 28 May 1929
In 1870, he composed his first opera, Alfred, over the course of five months from May to October. Its overture was first publicly performed as late as 1905, and the full opera only in 1938. In 1871 Dvořák left the Provisional Theatre orchestra to have more time for composing.
Dvořák applied the principles of Wagner’s opera reform and Franz Liszt’s music not only in his first opera Alfred, but also in three string quartets originating from the same period. These are highly avant-garde works which, according to certain musicologists, anticipate the musical language of Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.
