Fritzian Playlist (Operatic/Symphonic)

[mildred_of_midgard]

Courtesy of selenak and cahn, the operatic and symphonic playlist! I contributed only the formatting.

Music	Artist/Other Context	Historical Parallel
Concerto in g minor	Wilhelmine of Bayreuth	The Life and Times
Brüderlein komm tanz mit mir	Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel	Wilhelmine and Fritz as children
In the Hall of the Mountain King	Grieg, Peer Gynt	Growing up the son of FW
C'est mon jour supreme	Verdi, Don Carlo	Fritz/Katte
Due Vaticini	Verdi, Macbeth	Prince Eugene about Fritz/ Fritz and power
O paradis!	Meyerbeer, L'Africaine	Fritz/Silesia
Guerra!	Verdi, Aida	Prussia invades
Abscheulicher! Komm Hoffnung	Beethoven, Fidelio	Maria Theresia fights back
Ah! perdona al primo affetto	Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito	Fritz/Wilhelmine reconciliation in 1746
Musikalisches Opfer	J.S. Bach (written for Fritz)	Fritz as musician and patron
Non piu andrai	Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro	Fritz to Heinrich, age 19
Du repos voici l'heure	Gounod, Philémon et Baucis	Fritz/Fredersdorf
Jaj mamam Bruderherz	Kálmán, Die Czardasfürstin	Fritz' brothers (AW, Heinrich, Ferdinand) in the early 1750s
Se vuol ballare	Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro	Voltaire to Fritz, 1750-1753
L'alma mia fra le tempeste	Händel, Agrippina	Maria Theresia allies with France and Russia against Fritz
Credo	Verdi, Otello	Fritz responds by invading Saxony
È gettata la mia sorte	Verdi, Attila	Heinrich becomes second-in-command
The Dance of the Knights	Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet	The Seven Years' War
Vesti la Giubba	Leoncavallo, Pagliacci	Old Fritz survives
Solveig's Song	Grieg, Peer Gynt	Fritz grieving his dead
Thema Regium	J.S. Bach (Theme by Fritz)	Fritz dying

Encore: The Allegro from Flute Concerto in C Major, composed by Fritz himself. It doesn't quite fit the playlist, but it's a good representative sample of his work.

Comments

[iberiandoctor]

So, of course, I'm here, and of course I approve all these choices, especially the Bach Thema Regium, and the baby Hampson/Alagna C'est mon jour supreme, which will always and forever be my Fritz/Katte theme song ♥

[selenak]

*beams*

That's good to know, since one was my and one was cahn's choice, so we're both verified. :)

[cahn]

Hee, I thought you might object that we didn't use "Dio che nell'alma infondere," which indeed selenak brought up and which is of course THE friendship duet... but it's so bound up to me in Flanders (and Katte and Fritz didn't in fact die together), and "C'est mon jour supreme" is just so... auuuugh! :)

[iberiandoctor]

"C'est mon jour supreme" is just so... auuuugh! :)

It iiiiis, and it is inextricably followed by ah ! je meurs l'âme joyeuse, and thus it is even more fitting because it foreshadows Katte's tragic ending ;;;________;;;

I mean, we could have had the trifecta of Dio che nell'alma infondere/Per me giunto è il di supreme/Io morrò, ma lieto in core, but you guys were only limiting yourselves to one song ;)

[cahn]

yessssssssss

Haha, yes, allllll the Rodrigo/Don Carlo :D