Mozart's one-act opera Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) was written to be performed as half of a double bill that included Salieri's Prima la musica, e poi le parole (First the music, and then the words) in 1786. Both operas deal with the clash of artistic temperaments as impediments to the production of an opera. In Der Schauspieldirektor, ...
As late as the 1970s, Apollo et Hyacinthus was the one Mozart opera that listeners couldn't find at all on records -- the record companies presumably figured "after all, how good can it be? Mozart composed it when he was 11." Indeed, Leopold Hager was the first conductor to record Apollo et Hyacinthus in 1981, and its fortunes have hardly improved ...
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