Abu Hassan | |
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Singspiel by Carl Maria von Weber | |
![]() Abu Hassan (Peter Schreier) and his creditors in a 1960 performance | |
Librettist | Franz Carl Hiemer |
Language | German |
Based on | Story from One Thousand and One Nights |
Premiere | 4 June 1811 Residenz Theater, Munich |
Abu Hassan (J. 106) is a comic opera in one act by Carl Maria von Weber to a German libretto by Franz Carl Hiemer , based on a story in One Thousand and One Nights. It was composed between 11 August 1810 and 12 January 1811 and has set numbers with recitative and spoken dialogue. The work is a Singspiel in the then popular Turkish style.
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