Weber Euryanthe

Webers great heroicromantic opera Euryanthe premiered in Vienna in 1823 It concerns the wronged Euryanthe victim of a plot to establish her unfaithfulness but her love imbues her with colossal strength which Weber characterizes with acute psychological insight Throughcomposed and dispensing with spoken dialogue its chivalric plot provides opportunities for a series of arias ariosos duets cavatinas and choruses that contain some of his greatest operatic music This production employs the operas original version with a few very minor cuts