Henrico Leone (also Enrico Leone) is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Agostino Steffani to an Italian libretto by Ortensio Mauro. Based on the life of the powerful German prince Henry the Lion, the opera was first performed on 30 January 1689 in Hannover to inaugurate the new royal theatre in the Leineschloss (Leine Palace).[1][2]
The opera was revived as Enrico Leone in Hannover in 1989 when it was performed by the Capella Agostino Steffani (today the Hannoversche Hofkapelle) to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Hannover State Opera and of the composition. In May of that year the ensemble with the same soloists gave a concert performance of the opera at Boston's Jordan Hall as part of the Boston Early Music Festival.[5]
Enrico Leone – Capella Agostino Steffani conducted by Lajos Rovatkay; Monika Frimmer (Metilda), Ralf Popken (Enrico), Sabine Szameit (Idalba), Nagashima Yoko (Errea), Carola Guber (Eurillo), Dantes Diwiak (Almaro), Gerhard Faulstich (Ircano/Demone). Released on LP in 1986, reissued on CD in 1995. Label: Calig
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^Moderhack, Richard: Spätmittelalterliche Wandmalereien zur Heinrichssage in Karden a. d. Mosel, in: Braunschweigische Heimat, 1978, 64. Jahrg., volume 2, September, p. 51.