Abu Hassan
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Abu Hassan was also the code name of Palestinian terrorist Ali Hassan Salameh.
Abu Hassan is an opera in one act by Carl Maria von Weber to a German libretto by Franz Hiemer, based on a story in A Thousand and One Nights. It was first performed at the Residenz Theater in Munich on June 4, 1811.
The opera has set numbers with recitative and spoken dialogue. It is set in Baghdad in an unspecified time.
Abu Hassan is not part of the commonly-performed operatic repertory. Recordings exist (by Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopold Ludwig, Heinz Rögner, Gustav Kuhn and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, the last in Russian), and it is sometimes staged.
[edit] Roles
- Abu Hassan, cup-bearer to the Caliph (tenor)
- Fatime, his wife (soprano)
- Omar, a money-lender (bass)
- Caliph (spoken)
- Zobeide, the Caliph's wife (spoken)
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