''Fête galante'' is a 1930 Danish-language

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 ...

Poul Schierbeck Poul Schierbeck (8 June 1888 – 9 February 1949) was a Danish composer and organist. He was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub. From 1931 he taught composition and instrumentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. His pupils include ...

to a

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by Max Lobedanz. It was performed seven times at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, in 1931/32 with the composer's wife Sylvia Larsen in the main soprano role, but then not revived until 1960. It was played by

Den Jyske Opera Den Jyske Opera, also known as the Danish National Opera, is based in Aarhus, Denmark. Established in 1947, it is Denmark's largest touring opera company, and the second only to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. Description Founded in Aarhus ...

in February/March 2021."Poul Schierbeck: ''Fête galante''

(2021)

Recordings

Bo Skovhus Bo Skovhus (born 22 May 1962 in Ikast, Denmark) is a Danish opera singer (baritone). Skovhus studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, at the Royal Academy for Opera of Copenhagen and in New York with Oren Brown. While studying vo ...

, Denise Beck, Michael Weinius, Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Michael Schønwandt Michael Detlev Schønwandt (born 10 September 1953 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish conductor. In Denmark, he studied piano, theory, and composition, and later continued musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Biography In 1979, Sc ...

DaCapo 2 SACD 2013

References

1930 operas Compositions by Poul Schierbeck Danish-language operas Operas {{Opera-stub