Der Bäbu

Der Bäbu
Opera by Heinrich Marschner
Vocal score
Translation	The Baboo
Librettist	Wilhelm August Wohlbrück
Language	German
Based on	Augustus Prinsep's The Baboo and Other Tales Descriptive of Society in India
Premiere	19 February 1838 (1838-02-19) Opernhaus Hannover

Der Bäbu (The Baboo) is a Comic opera in three acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (Marschner's brother-in-law) is based on the book The Baboo and Other Tales Descriptive of Society in India, Smith, Elder, and Co., London 1834 by Augustus Prinsep. The first performance took place on 19 February 1838 in Hanover.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere,19 February 1838
Bäbu Brischmohun Bonurschi	baritone	Traugott Gey
Nabob Jussuf Ali Khan	bass
Dilafrose, his daughter	soprano	Adele Jazedé
Heinrich Forester	tenor	Eduard Holzmiller
Gosain, fakir	bass
Eva Eldridge, his niece	soprano
Friedrich Mosely	tenor
Conductor		Heinrich Marschner

Instrumentation

Marschner scored the opera for two piccolos and two flutes (not doubling), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trombones, timpani, tamtam, and strings.

Recordings

• Overtura

References

Notes

Sources

• Allen Dean Palmer, Heinrich August Marschner, 1795–1861: His life and stage works. Ann Arbor 1980
• John Warrack and Ewan West. The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford University Press 1992 ISBN 0-19-869164-5
• Brigitta Weber, Heinrich Marschner. Königlicher Hofkapellmeister in Hannover. Hannover: Niedersächsische Staatstheater 1995. (Prinzenstraße. 5) ISBN 3-931266-01-X

External links

• Der Bäbu – Neuburger Kammeroper 2018