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	Oberon - LoveToKnow Watches
		Weber's opera, Oberon, to the words of J. Planche, was first produced at Covent Garden on the 12th of April 1826.
		With Oberon in the character of guardian of the treasure should be compared Andvari, the dwarf of Scandinavian legend, who, in the shape of a pike, was seized by Loki and made to give up his treasure and the magic ring by which he could create more gold.
		This ring, the Andvaranautr, with the curse of Andvari upon it, caused the misfortunes of the Volsungs and the Burgundian Nibelungs, and is known in German romance as the Ring of the Nibelungen.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Oberon (308 words)

	Oberon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oberon (mythology), in Arthurian Legend the King of the Fairies, famous from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
		Oberon (opera), an opera by Carl Maria von Weber
		Oberon class submarine was a class of submarine in the second half of the 20th century
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberon (184 words)

	Oberon (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oberon gives his wife, Titania, a potion that causes her to fall in love with Bottom in order to get the changeling.
		Oberon's status as king of the elves comes from the character of Alberich (elbe "elves" reix, rex "king"), a sorcerer in the legendary history of the Merovingian dynasty.
		Oberon was a character appearing in Disney's Gargoyles as the ruler of the mystical Avalon and "king" of the Third Race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberon_(mythology) (915 words)

	Oberon - Weber
		According to Planché's description of the action, Oberon, the Elfin King, having quarreled with his fairy partner, Titania, vows never to be reconciled to her till he shall find two lovers constant through peril and temptation.
		Oberon appears with his queen, whom he has regained by the constancy of the lovers, and the opera concludes with Charlemagne’s pardon of Huon.
		The "Oberon" overture, like that to "Freischuütz" and "Euryanthe," is composed of material from the opera -- the horn solo from Sir Huon’s scena, portions of the fairies, chorus and the third-act finale, the climax of Rezia’s scene in the second act, and Puck’s invocation.
	www.musicwithease.com /weber-oberon.html (613 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		At the age of 13 Weber made his debut as a pianist and wrote his first opera.
		He later worked for members of the German nobility; was conductor of the Prague opera, which he revitalized; and from 1816 was director of the newly organized German opera in Dresden, where Italian opera had long reigned supreme.
		Oberon, commissioned for the Covent Garden Theatre in London, had an English libretto; Weber learned English expressly for this commission.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..we023900.a (282 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Oberon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The opera was premiered in Berlin in June 1821 and was an immediate success.
		The opera received only a lukewarm response, and even though Weber immediately undertook revisions to respond to the criticism leveled at the work, it was withdrawn after 20 performances.
		Weber himself had planned to rework the opera, replacing dialogue with recitative and recreating it in the German mold, but died before a new version was possible.
	www.operaworld.com /special/ober1.shtml (1377 words)

	United States Navy Band, Navy Band Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With two exceptions, all of the warhorses on this disc are associated with opera and no doubt derive their familiarity from entering society’s consciousness at a time when opera was at the height of its importance as entertainment in Western civilization.
		Oberon was written on commission as an “English” opera for premier in London’s Covent Garden opera house.
		Although Rossini composed his first comic opera at age 18, it is this one, written three years later, that is considered his first mature work in the style.
	www.navyband.navy.mil /disc_warhorsesliner.shtml (1046 words)

	Oberon
		Oberon was a class of submarine in the second half of the 20th century
		Oberon is an astronomical organization for youth in Antwerp, Belgium.
		Oberon is also the name of a beer brewed in the summer by the Kalamzoo-based microbrewery Bell's.
	www.paleorama.com /Disney-O/Oberon.php (529 words)

	OPERA: 'OBERON,' AT TANGLEWOOD - New York Times
		''Oberon,'' created with the librettist James Robinson Planche, was Weber's attempt to write in the English opera manner prevalent at the time.
		British opera at this time generally meant a drama with some musical interludes and embellishment, the score appended to the action rather than propelling it.
		As a unified evening of musical theater, ''Oberon'' is pretty much of a mess - a melange of inspiration and formula, majesty and murky comedy that only really comes to life in the second half.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DC153CF937A3575BC0A960948260 (679 words)

	Covent Garden reopens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		While opera and dance were performed onstage, the real star of the evening was the new house.
		George Bernard Shaw, an opera fan of the first order, was always amused by the juxtaposition of the titled rich arriving for the opera and the ragged vendors peddling their wares at the market next door.
		Lower-income opera fans could occasionally get a balcony seat for $30 or so, but anyone bearing such a bargain-basement ticket was required to enter the house through a separate door from the toffs.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Articles/times120299.htm (2117 words)

	Oberon (The Elf-King's Oath) - Opera
		From Puck's conversation, we learn that Oberon and his wife Titania have quarreled over the relative constancy of man and woman, and have vowed never to have anything to do with each other until some couple is found who will remain true to each other through all temptation.
		Then Oberon waves his hand and they are transported to Bagdad, where they gaze upon the foaming river and the glittering minarets and fear to breathe lest these vanish from sight.
		Oberon changes the scene to Charlemagne's court, where Sir Huon explains that his oath is fulfilled.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_116.shtml (1025 words)

	Opera Sheet Music! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Prima Donna (from The Phantom Of The Opera)
		The Fairground (from 'The Phantom Of The Opera')
		The Phantom Of The Opera (from The Phantom Of The Opera)
	www.laurasmidiheaven.com /Sheet-Music/Opera--PAGE15.html (1074 words)

	David Walker: Countertenor, 1999 ARIA winner
		Today the countertenor has found his place in oratorio, orchestral works and opera, reclaiming for the male voice some of the"trouser roles" that after Mozart's time (and the end of the era of castrati* singers) came to be sung by the (female) mezzo-soprano.
		In the spring, he will debut with the Utah Opera as Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and he then travels to Boston to perform the role of the Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight, which he also sang at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in the summer of 2003.
		Walker returned to Glimmerglass Opera in the summer of 1998 as Armindo in Handel's Partenope, and he made his New York City Opera debut in the fall of 1998 in the leading countertenor role of Arsace in Partenope.
	www.ffaire.com /aria/walker.html (955 words)

	Weber - Oberon Overture - bhso.org.uk
		He was a great champion of German opera and intended to rework Oberon in the German style, but sadly he died just two months after the first performance.
		The complete opera is not often performed, but the overture is a popular concert piece, taking its melodies from the main body of the opera.
		The lyrical second theme, played by the clarinet and echoed by the strings, is followed by another lilting theme, which will return in exuberant style towards the end of the piece, when Oberon and Puck have worked their magic, perils and dangers have been overcome and everyone lives happily ever after.
	www.bhso.org.uk /repert-170-Weber-Oberon-Overture.htm (281 words)

	Decca Music Group - Composers
		He was only 17 when he was appointed music director of the opera house in Breslau, and he held similar positions, successively, at Stuttgart, Prague and, for the last nine years of his life, Dresden - where in 1817 the four-year-old Richard Wagner appeared as an angel in one of Weber's operas.
		In Weber's three best-known operas - Der Freischx.tz, Euryanthe and Oberon, all completed in the 1820s - the musical depiction of nature became an important element, and an atmosphere of supernatural mysticism also wafted onto the stage.
		Thus, it is no wonder that Weber's operas so powerfully influenced the next generation of Romantic opera composers, especially Berlioz and Wagner, just as his evocative instrumental writing, in his concert and salon pieces as well as his operas, influenced Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schumann.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/composers/weber.html (548 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
		Upon the latter's recommendation, Weber was appointed in 1804 conductor of the opera at Breslau.
		In 1813 he accepted the conductorship of the national opera at Prague, where he continued until called to Dresden in 1816 by the King of Saxony to organize a German opera company in the Saxon capital.
		He became, through his musical interpretations of the war and emancipation songs, his operas, and works for the pianoforte, not only the founder of the romantic school of music, but also a powerful factor in the movement for throwing-off the foreign yoke in matters political and artistic.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15574b.htm (638 words)

	Overture to Oberon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Weber was in declining health when he took on the commission for his final opera, Oberon, or The Elf King's Oath.
		The keynote of the whole is its picture of the mysteries of elfland and the life of the spirits of the air, earth and water.
		The Overture, which has met with a far happier fate than the opera itself, is characterized from beginning to end by that âintoxicating sweetness.â In it Weber makes use not only of material from the opera, but also of motifs from the incidental music he wrote in 1818 for Eduard Gehe's tragedy Heinrich IV.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=3140 (545 words)

	Opera Today : WEBER: Oberon
		Oberon and Titania have quarrelled over the matter of male or female inconstancy and will be reconciled when a couple constant through misfortune can be found.
		Sir Huon sees the Caliph's daughter, Reiza, in a dream, and is given by Oberon a magic horn to summon necessary aid and a magic goblet, that will burn the lips of the impure.
		Their trials now over, the couple is transported to the palace of Charlemagne by Oberon and Titania and the opera ends with praise of the constant Sir Huon and Reiza.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2006/03/weber_oberon.php (863 words)

	Public Domain Music - World of Music News at Web-Helper.net
		WEBER'S opera Oberon is to be given at La Scala, Milan, for the first time in Italy.
		DURING a recent performance of Koenigskinder by the Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Company in Milwaukie, the audience was somewhat disturbed by hearing the trumpeting of an elephant and the roaring of a tiger.
		A wandering circus troupe had temporarily taken refuge under the stage of the opera house, and the animals were seriously disturbed by the music of the orchestra.
	www.web-helper.net /pdmusic/WOMNews/home61913.asp (1633 words)

	Today's Opera News -- Metropolitan Opera Schedule -- AllAboutOpera.com
		Florida Grand Opera was rehearsing Act 2 of their opening production, Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), last Tuesday, with a generator providing the fans to mitigate the sweltering heat and the lights to keep the players from stumbling on the set.
		Opera buffs, a skeptic might have guessed, want to be inside the opera house, not out on a blanket; and those who don't watch opera, well, don't watch opera.
		Opera spending is to be cut by ?164 million over the next three years, affecting all of Italy's 13 opera houses.
	www.allaboutopera.com /news/2005_11_01_archives.php (13680 words)

	The Edinburgh festival 2004 -- EIF Review
		The dismissive Scots phrase "He's awa' wi' the Fairies" could be an apt description of Weber and his final opera Oberon were it not for the quality of the music.
		But the opera has few noteworthy arias and the English libretto is best forgotten.
		The libretto is based on a translation of Oberon by the German rococco poet Christoph Wieland, itself based on a medieval French chanson, with the addition of Shakespeare's Fairy King Oberon and the mischievous Puck.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2004/eif/review.shtml?04_08_18_oberon (443 words)

	classical music - andante - weber's fabulously messy magic carpet ride
		At an early stage in the opera's genesis, the ailing composer realized that James Robinson Planché's preposterous libretto — which has the action careening dizzily from fairyland to Bordeaux, to Baghdad, to Tunis and the court of Charlemagne — would limit the appeal and viability of the opera outside England.
		Wagner — one of Weber's most ardent champions — conducted Oberon during his periods as Kapellmeister in Würzburg and Riga, in a version of the text which took the picaresque plot closer to Planché's source, the German Christian Martin Wieland.
		Steve Davislim was far from a fey Oberon, mustering virile, menacing tones for his conjuring of the storm.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16415&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (563 words)

	WEBER, Carl Maria von :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of composers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He studied with Michael Haydn in Sahburg for a time, and soon after the age of eleven he began a career as a concert pianist, in spite of a congenital disease of the hip.
		From 1801 to 1816 he held such posts as Kapellmeister at Breslau, a music secretaryship in Stuttgart and directorship of the Prague Opera, while making concert tours and composing orchestral works.
		In 1817 he took up the directorship of the Dresden Court Opera and he held this position for the rest of his short life.
	www.musicweb-international.com /Classpedia/Weber.htm (177 words)

	Weber: Oberon (Libretto - english)
		Oberon is lying asleep among the flowers, surrounded by a tableau consisting of sprites and fairies, who, as the singing begins, hardly move at all.
		Oberon is amidst the fairies, sprites and elves.
		Oberon's bank of flowers sinks from view; the flowers disintegrate and petals flutter in all directions revealing a scene of Bagdad in the evening sun.
	www.impresario.ch /libretto/libwebobe_e.htm (4747 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com Music - Weber: Oberon -- Sir John Eliot Gardiner - CD
		Oberon is not the most stageworthy opera, but it contains an evening's worth of delightful music, and John Eliot Gardiner's recording -- the first ever to use the original English text -- makes the most of it.
		The rest of the cast embraces Weber's melodies with equal enthusiasm, and Gardiner's love for the music is evident from the excitement he generates in the orchestra and chorus.
		The chorus is crucial to Weber's operas, and this one sings beautifully.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=vb0gpdvChC&EAN=28947565635&ITM=1 (921 words)

	Opera Today : FeaturedOperas
		The British composer Thomas Ades’ new (2004) opera, a riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, has been rumored hard to perform and harder to hear.
		Mozart and Salieri, an opera in one act consisting of two scenes.
		By early 1835 Giovanni Pacini had written almost fifty operas during the course of a career launched in 1813.
	www.operatoday.com /content/featuredoperas (1509 words)

	BMG Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Oberon - Opera in three Acts; Act I; Eil, edler Held!
		Oberon - Opera in three Acts; Act II; O wie wogt es sich schön auf der Flut (No. 15 Finale), 7:31 (excerpt)
		Oberon - Opera in three Acts; Act I; Ehre und Heil dem, der treu ist und brav!
	www.bmgclassics.com /albums/product.jsp?id=09026685052 (560 words)

	Berlioz and Weber: includes full scores of Weber which may be viewed and played online
		It was put together by the composer and critic Castil-Blaze, who specialised in ‘arranging’ operatic works of other composers, to ensure their success as well as his own profit (he subjected Mozart to the same treatment).
		For example the scene by the Elbe in Part II of the Damnation of Faust echoes the fairy world of Oberon, in the same key (D major) as the overture to the opera; the overture based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the Queen Mab scherzo in Romeo and Juliet are similarly indebted to Oberon.
		In the overture to the opera, the stormy C minor music recalls for example the first and third movements of the Fifth Symphony or the Coriolanus overture, while the jubilant C major conclusion echoes, among others, the finale of the same Fifth Symphony, the Leonora overtures, and the finale of Fidelio.
	www.hberlioz.com /Predecessors/weber.htm (2615 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He was only 17 when he was appointed music director of the opera house in Breslau, and he held similar positions, successively, at Stuttgart, Prague and, for the last nine years of his life, Dresden — where in 1817 the four year-old Richard Wagner appeared as an angel in one of Weber’s operas.
		As an opera house music director and conductor, and also as a writer on musical subjects, Weber was a reformer whose goal was to make opera into a total work of art — musical, literary, dramatic and "scenographic." In this sense he anticipated Wagner, who admired him greatly.
		In Weber’s three best-known operas — Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon, all completed in the 1820s — the musical depiction of nature became an important element, and an atmosphere of supernatural mysticism also wafted onto the stage.
	www.iclassics.com /artistBio?contentId=1069 (695 words)

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