page_title: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
section_title: Operas
hierarchical_section_title: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel / Compositions / Operas
caption_attribution_description: English: Ekhof-Theatre Auditorium Deutsch: Ekhof-Theater Zuschauerraum
context_page_description: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a prolific German composer of the Baroque era. Stölzel was an accomplished German stylist who wrote a good many of the poetic texts for his vocal works.
context_section_description: Stölzel is known to have composed 18 operas (music almost entirely lost):
  Narcissus (Wroclaw 1711)
  Valeria (Naumburg 1712)
  Rosen und Dornen der Liebe (Gera, 1713)
  Artemisia (Naumburg 1713). Surviving arias:
  "Der holde Strahl, so meine brust entzündet"
  "Wenn du deinen Schatz wirst küssen"
  Orion (Naumburg 1713)
  Venus und Adonis (Prague 1714)
  Acis und Galathea (= Die triumphierende Liebe, Prague)
  Das durch Liebe besiegte Glück (Prague)
  Diomedes (= Die Triumphirende Unschuld, Bayreuth 16 November 1718). Five arias surviving via the archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin:
  Act II, scene 11: "Es ist die Ursach' meines Leidens"
  "Geht ihr Küsse geht ihr Blicke"
  "Mein Glücke steht in deinen Händen"
  "Bist du bei mir geh ich mit Freuden"
  "Sage mir doch wertes Glücke"
  "Ja ihr angenehmsten Wangen" is an extant aria of the opera Berenice, possibly composed by Stölzel and premiered in Zeitz in 1713.
  Composed in Gotha:
   Der Musenberg (28 July 1723)
  Die beglückte Tugend (23 October 1723)
  Hercules Procidius oder die triumphierende Tugend (1725)
  Die Ernde der Freuden (= Die Freuden-Ernde, 23 October 1727)
  Thersander und Demonassa, oder Die glückliche Liebe (1733)
  L'amore vince l'inganno (1736)
  Endymion (1740)
  Die gekrönte Weisheit (1742)
  Die mit Leben und Vergnügen belohnte Tugend (1744)
  Restaged in Gotha:
  Die thriumphierende Liebe (= Acis und Galathea, 1729)
  Adonis (= Venus und Adonis, 1730)
  Narcissus (1734 and 1735)
  Some compositions are alternatively indicated as opera or serenata (see also secular cantatas section above):
  Die beschützte Irene, on a libretto by Johann Laurentius Stengel (Altenburg 1722; in 1733 possibly transformed into the serenata Nur in dir wohnt mein Ergötzen, WK A 8,1)
caption: Ekhof Theater, view from stage
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