Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is an opera (designated as a Romantische Oper) in three acts by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner. The German libretto by Cäsar Max Hegel was based on a work by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, based in turn on a French melodramma by Jean-Charles Emmanuel Nodier, Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche and Achille-François de Jouffroy, ultimately taken from the short novel The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori.
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Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is an opera (designated as a Romantische Oper) in three acts by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner. The German libretto by Cäsar Max Hegel was based on a work by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, based in turn on a French melodramma by Jean-Charles Emmanuel Nodier, Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche and Achille-François de Jouffroy, ultimately taken from the short novel The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori.
Other early 19th-century operas on the same theme were Silvestro de Palma's I vampiri (1812), Martin-Joseph Mengal's Le vampire (1826), and Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr of the same year as Lindpaintner's opera (1828).
The first performance took place at the Hoftheater in Stuttgart on 21 September 1828. It proved the most successful of the composer's operas.
Lindpaintner made a revised version of the opera in 1850, when he put recitatives in the place of the originals spoken dialogue.
The scene of the action is in the south of France (not Scotland), though in general it...
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