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Oberon
Oberon © Wilfried Hösl
A strange yet fascinating work, Oberon is probably the epitome of German romantic opera: composed in 1826 by Carl Maria von Weber for Covent Garden, it encapsulates the nascent modernity of Weber’s delicate and colourful music, and the cosmopolitanism of German romanticism. Indeed, the libretto is a re-writing of a German epic poem, itself inspired from a French epic but pervaded by Shakespeare’s A midsummer night’s dream: we therefore see the Elfic King Oberon dealing with a French knight and a princess from Baghdad… Ivor Bolton conducts this new production by Nikolaus Habjan.
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