Faniska
Sign in to savethumb|Luigi Cherubini Faniska is an opera eroica in three acts by Luigi Cherubini. The German libretto, by Joseph Sonnleithner, is based on the melodrama Les mines de Pologne (1803) by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.
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- Genre
- opéra comique
- Composer
- Luigi Cherubini
- Librettist
- Joseph Sonnleithner
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- language of work or name
- German
- date of first performance
- 1806-02-25
- location of first performance
- Theater am Kärntnertor
- form of creative work
- opera
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- Commons category
- Faniska
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thumb|Luigi Cherubini Faniska is an opera eroica in three acts by Luigi Cherubini. The German libretto, by Joseph Sonnleithner, is based on the melodrama Les mines de Pologne (1803) by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.
==Background== In June 1805, Cherubini took up an invitation to travel to Vienna, where his works were highly appreciated. Here he put on a series of concerts and attended a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio. He met Haydn, a composer he particularly admired, and gave him a medal from the Conservatoire de Paris. Haydn presented Cherubini with the manuscript of his "Drumroll Symphony". Cherubini also accepted a commission to write an opera for the Viennese stage and Faniska was the result. The plot has much in common with Cherubini's earlier rescue opera Lodoïska (1791), including its Polish setting.
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