SCHWEITZER: Rosamund

SCHWEITZER: Rosamund 20 January. Mannheim Text by C. M. Wieland. Three acts. Schweitzer’s last work. The opera was ready to be performed on 11 January 1778 when the sudden death of the Bavarian Elector, Maximilian Joseph , on 30 December 1777, and the departure of his successor, Carl Theodor , to Munich frustrated the production. Two years later the interest in the new development of German national opera raised by Alceste and Günther von Schwarzburg had somewhat diminished; Rosamund was given…