Johann Theile

…a pupil of Heinrich Schütz, Johann Theile. One of them, Adam und Eva, inaugurated Germany’s first public opera house, in Hamburg, in 1678. During the mid-18th century the term singspiel came to be reserved for what the English called ballad opera and what the French called opéra comique: light, usually…

…into the German Passions by Johann Theile and Johann Kuhnau. The three unaccompanied Passions by the celebrated composer Heinrich Schütz return to the more austere type.