''L’isle déserte'' is a 1779 opera comique by

Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck (20 February 1734 – 31 December 1809) was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher who spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. Possibly the m ...

to a libretto by the Comte d'Ossun after Metastasio's libretto ''

l'isola disabitata ' (The uninhabited island), Hob. 28/9, is an opera (') by Joseph Haydn, his tenth opera, written for the Eszterházy court and premiered on 6 December 1779. The libretto by Metastasio, the only one by that author Haydn set. The libretto had ...

'' of 1754, coincidentally reset in Italian by Haydn in the same year in the same year as Beck. The libretto had been translated into French already in 1759. Haydn also composed an entirely different singspiel version '' Die wüste Insel''.

Recording

*''L'Isle deserte'' (spoken dialogue omitted) Ana Maria Labin, Samantha Gaul, Theodore Browne, Fabian Kelly,

La Stagione Frankfurt La Stagione Frankfurt is a German ensemble of Baroque and classical music, adept at historically informed performance. History The ensemble La Stagione Frankfurt was founded in 1988 by the German flautist and conductor Michael SchneiderBookl ...

, Michael Schneider 1CD 2019Olivier Rouvière

References

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