Verkündigung (Braunfels)

Verkündigung ("Annunciation") is a 1935 mystery opera (ein Mysterium) in a prologue and four acts by Walter Braunfels to the composer's own libretto after the German translation of Paul Claudel's L'Annonce faite a Marie.[1][2] Claudel's play tells the story of a woman, Violaine, who moved by pity kisses a leper and contracts leprosy herself, but heals the leper she had embraced. Violaine also brings back to life the child born to her sister Mara and Jacques, the man who betrayed her, and then dies herself.[3] The names of Claudel's characters are germanified so the father Andre Vercors becomes Andreas Gradherz, Pierre de Craon becomes Peter von Ulm, and so on.

Roles

Andreas Gradherz, Violäne's father - bass-baritone
Violäne's mother - alto
Violäne - soprano
Mara, Violäne's sister soprano
Jakobäus, Violäne's former fiance, Mara's husband - baritone
Peter von Ulm - tenor
Peter von Ulm's assistant - tenor
Voice of an angel - soprano
First worker - bass
Schulze von Rothenstein - speaking role

Recordings

Verkündigung - Andrea Trauboth (Violaine), Chieko Shirasaka-Teratani (Mara), Siegmund Nimsgern (Andreas Gradherz), Claudia Rüggeberg (the mother), John Bröcheler (Jacobaeus), Christer Bladin (Peter von Ulm). Köln SO & Chor, Dennis Russell Davies 1992
Verkündigung - Juliane Banse (Violaine), Janina Baechle (Mara), Robert Holl (the father), Hanna Schwarz (the mother), Adrian Eröd (Jacques), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer 2014

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References

Operas in German: a dictionary - Page 336 Margaret Ross Griffel - 1990
Gramophone - Volume 72, Issues 853-856 -1994 Page 108 "In the period between the two world wars, Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) was among the most widely performed of all living opera composers. ... Verkundigung ("Annunciation") was written between 1934 and 1937, presumably in full knowledge that it had no foreseeable ... The libretto is based on a German translation of Paul Claudel's L Annonce faite a Marie."
Michael Haas Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis 2013 0300154305 " ... life included a powerful String Quintet, three string quartets, a number of church cantatas and three large-scale stage works: Die Verkiindigung (1933—5), Der Traum ein Leben (1937), and Szenen aus dem Leben der heiligen Johanna (1939—43).

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[1] Operas in German: a dictionary - Page 336 Margaret Ross Griffel - 1990

[2] Gramophone - Volume 72, Issues 853-856 -1994 Page 108 "In the period between the two world wars, Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) was among the most widely performed of all living opera composers. ... Verkundigung ("Annunciation") was written between 1934 and 1937, presumably in full knowledge that it had no foreseeable ... The libretto is based on a German translation of Paul Claudel's L Annonce faite a Marie."

[3] Michael Haas Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis 2013 0300154305 " ... life included a powerful String Quintet, three string quartets, a number of church cantatas and three large-scale stage works: Die Verkiindigung (1933—5), Der Traum ein Leben (1937), and Szenen aus dem Leben der heiligen Johanna (1939—43).

Walter Braunfels

Operas Prinzessin Brambilla (1909) Ulenspiegel (1913) Die Vögel (1920) Don Gil von den grünen Hosen (1924) Der gläserne Berg (1929) Galathea (1929) Verkündigung (1935) Der Traum ein Leben (1937) Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna (2001)