Program Notes
Orchestral/Symphonic
As with almost all Schubert’s dramatic music, the overture is the only part you are likely to hear of the opera, Des Teufels Lustschloss. But it is so striking as to arouse lively curiosity about the rest of the work...
Franz Schubert began at least 17 works for the stage, but they remain the least known aspect of his output, and many of the surviving works are hard to evaluate, since they have not survived complete. This is the case of Die Freunde von Salamanka, where the musical numbers have come down to us, but without the spoken text of this two-act comic Singspiel...