'' Der Bäbu '' (''The Baboo'') is a

Comic opera Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...

in three acts by

Heinrich Marschner Heinrich August Marschner (16 August 1795 – 14 December 1861) was the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner.

. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (Marschner's brother-in-law) is based on the book ''The Baboo and Other Tales Descriptive of Society in India'', Smith, Elder, and Co., London 1834 by Augustus Prinsep. The first performance took place on 19 February 1838 in

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

Roles

Instrumentation

Marschner scored the opera for two piccolos and two flutes (not doubling), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trombones, timpani, tamtam, and strings.

Recordings

* Overtura

References

Notes Sources *Allen Dean Palmer, ''Heinrich August Marschner, 1795–1861: His life and stage works''. Ann Arbor 1980 *

John Warrack John Hamilton Warrack (born 1928, in London) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist. Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composer Guy Warrack. He was educated at Winchester College (1941-6) and then at the Royal College ...

and Ewan West. ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera''. Oxford University Press 1992 *Brigitta Weber, ''Heinrich Marschner. Königlicher Hofkapellmeister in Hannover''. Hannover: Niedersächsische Staatstheater 1995. (Prinzenstraße. 5)

External links

Der Bäbu – Neuburger Kammeroper 2018
Operas by Heinrich Marschner Operas Singspiele German-language operas 1838 operas Operas set in India {{German-opera-stub