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''Seelewig'' or ''Das geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel genant Seelewig'' (''The Sacred Forest Poem or Play of Rejoicing called Seelewig'') is an opera in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue by the German composer Sigmund Theophil Staden. The libretto by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607—1658), first published 1644 in the fourth part of his ''Frauenzimmer Gesprächspiele'', is based on the schoolplay ''Ein gar schön geistliches Waldgetichte genant Die glückseelige Seele'' of 1637, itself translated from ''L'anima felice favola boschareccia'' by the Italian Nicolò Negri (1606).〔see Caemmerer 1987 and Schütze 2010〕 It is the earliest German opera whose music has survived. On the surface, the work seems to be a typical Christian allegory of the soul's journey through this world and the symbolic action takes place in a pastoral setting.〔see Caemmerer 1987 and 1998, Aikin 2002〕 Nonetheless, recent inquiries〔see Schütze 2010 and Kaminski 2010〕 which account for the context of the libretto in Harsdörffer's ''Frauenzimmer Gesprächspiele'' have pointed out several problems of a seamless allegoresis. Those readings make it much more likely that ''Seelewig'' is bound to its Jesuit pretext in a complex, competitive and even polemic way. The opera mixes musical numbers and spoken dialogue in a way which foreshadows the Singspiel. ==Performance history== It was performed before the court at Nuremberg in 1644. Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel also arranged a performance at Wolfenbüttel on 21 April 1654 and it was staged again in Augsburg in 1698. In the 1970s it was revived with productions in Germany, the Netherlands and Oberlin, Ohio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seelewig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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