''Arminio'' or ''Chi la Dura la Vince'' is an

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

(" Dramma musicale") – and the earliest extant opera composed in

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

– in three acts about the Germanic military hero Arminius, and the only surviving opera composed by

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl L ...

, composed ca. 1690–1692 with an Italian libretto probably by Francesco Maria Raffaelini. The manuscript score is kept in the Carolino Augusteum of Salzburg.

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*Place and Time:

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during the reign of emperor

Tiberius Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father ...

. The opera is about the story of the wife of Arminius, Thusnelda (Segesta) who becomes prisoner of Germanicus.

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H.I.F. Biber: ''Arminio'', Salzburger Hofmusik, Il Dolcimelo. *Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner *Singers: Gotthold Schwarz /

Bernhard Landauer Bernhard Landauer (born 20 July 1970) is an Austrian countertenor in opera and concert, who is active internationally in both historically informed performance and contemporary music. Life and career Bernhard Landauer was born in Innsbruc ...

/ Irena Troupova / Regina Schwarzer / Otto Rastbichler /

Hermann Oswald Hermann Oswald is a German tenor in opera and concert. Oswald received his first musical training as a member of the Tölzer Knabenchor. Among his operatic roles were Monostatos in Mozart’s ''Zauberflöte'' under Achim Freyer in Schwetzingen an ...

/ Barbara Schlick / Gerd Türk / Xenia Meijer / Florian Mehltretter / Gerd Kenda / Markus Forster *Recording date: April 1994 *Label: CPO

References

* Piero Gelli, Filippo Poletti: Dizionario Dell'opera 2008, Dalai editore, 2007 1692 operas Operas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Italian-language operas Operas Operas set in antiquity Operas based on real people Operas set in Germany Operas set in Italy German patriotic songs Cultural depictions of Arminius Cultural depictions of Caligula Cultural depictions of Tiberius Cultural depictions of Nero Songs about military officers {{Italian-opera-stub

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