Note: Because the rebuilding of this website is not completely finished yet, some links to pictures mentioned in this article are not working yet. The Lippische Landesbibliothek, home of the Albert Lortzing archive, has acquired some unique portraits of Albert Lortzing. The most interesting, IMO, is a colorful gouache, probably by the Swiss painter and […]

Albert Lortzing died on the 21st of January 1851 in Berlin. Personally I prefer to celebrate his birthday on 23 October, but this year I have a special reason to give some attention to his dying day and write this little post. Bert Hagels, who helped me in 2009 by adding a substantial part to […]

The Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater Annaberg-Buchholz had last month an interesting surprise to offer for Lortzing fans: the world premier of “Andreas Hofer”. This work, written as one of four “Liederspiele” in 1832 during Lortzing’s “Lehrjahre” in Detmold (the other plays were “Der Pole und sein Kind”, “Szenen aus Mozarts Leben” and “Der Weihnachtsabend”), has never before been […]

Heyme erläutert in dem TV-Gespräch sein Regiekonzept, Lortzing unverfälscht auf die Opernbühne zu bringen. Die Opernproduktion erfolgte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern. Deutsche Demokratiegeschichte als große Oper, ein TV-Gespräch über eine außergewöhnliche Inszenierung.

A new book on Lortzing has been published last month:Eva Marie Schnelle: “Dann bricht der Freiheit Morgen an”. Die Opern Albert Lortzings in ihrem verfassungsgeschichtlichen Kontext.Schriftenreihe der Albert-Lortzing-Gesellschaft, Band 1Leipziger UniversitätsverlagISBN 978-3-86583-812-4 It is about Lortzing as a political composer. Which is not a new perspective: although we know Lortzing mainly as a composer of […]