Germanicus (opera)

Germanicus is an opera by Georg Philipp Telemann, to a libretto in German by the poet Christine Dorothea Lachs [de], fourth daughter of Nicolaus Adam Strungk of Dresden.

It is supposedly one of the twenty operas that Telemann wrote for the opera house in the Oper am Brühl in Leipzig.

[5] The plot concerns the Roman general Germanicus.

The opera was believed lost until 45 arias were discovered in a Frankfurt archive by Michael Maul.

The opera was premiered with spoken text between arias at the Bachfest Leipzig 2007 and at the 2010 Magdeburg Telemann Festival under conductor Gotthold Schwarz.