Svendsen, Johan

Væringerne i Miklagard. Opera (ufullført og tapt)

The Varangians in Miklagard. Opera (unfinished and lost)

JSV VARIA

This opera is mentioned in Nordisk Musik-Tidende in August 1885: ‘Ligeledes har Joh. Svendsen ifølge danske Blade, lagt Grunden til en Opera over Emnet ‘Væringerne i Miklagard’’ [Likewise Johan Svendsen has, according to Danish Newspapers, started working on an opera over the subject ‘Væringerne i Miklagard’]. Other traces of this opera is not found. ‘Væringerne in Miklagard’ is a tragedy written in 1827 by the danish author Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850).