G. BENDA: Medea

G. BENDA: Medea 1 May. Leipzig Text by F. W. Gotter. Ein mit Musik vermischtes Drama. One act. Benda’s second melodrama, hardly less successful than Ariadne some months earlier. Vocal score published 1778 and 1785. Subsequently produced at Gotha 6 June 1775; Altenburg 6 September 1775; Dresden 6 November 1775; Hamburg 10 December 1776; Berlin 26 March 1777; Frankfort 31 May 1777; Vienna, B. 5 December 1778, etc.; Graz 7 July 1818. In German also, St. Petersburg 8 February 1781; Warsaw 16 April…