MOZART: Apollo et Hyacinthus seu Hyacinthi Metamorphosis* seu Hyacinthi Metamorphosis*

MOZART: Apollo et Hyacinthus seu Hyacinthi Metamorphosis* 13 May. Salzburg ( Latin ) text by R. Widl. Called a Lateinische Komödie. Strictly speaking, not an opera, but musical intermezzi (9 numbers) in Widl’s Latin tragedy, Clementia Croesi. Such Latin plays were performed at Salzburg University at the end of each term. (Even this was not the first stage-work of the eleven-year-old boy; Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes, the first act of which was set by Mozart, had been given at Salzburg…