Der Vampyr

Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (Marschner's brother-in-law) is based on the play Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut (1821) by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, which itself was based on the short story The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori. The first performance took place on 29 March 1828 in Leipzig, where it was a hit.

This article is about the opera by Marschner. For Lindpaintner's opera, see Der Vampyr (Lindpaintner).
Der Vampyr
Opera by Heinrich Marschner
Poster from 1828
TranslationThe Vampire
LibrettistWilhelm August Wohlbrück
LanguageGerman
Based onHeinrich Ludwig Ritter's Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut
Premiere
29 March 1828 (1828-03-29)
Altes Theater (Leipzig)

The opera is still occasionally performed, and, in 1992, an updated adaptation, entitled The Vampyr: A Soap Opera, with new lyrics by Charles Hart, starring Omar Ebrahim and produced by Janet Street-Porter, was serialised on BBC television.

In June 2014, OperaHub in Boston premiered a new English-language adaptation of Der Vampyr by John J King that spoofs more modern vampire stories such as Twilight, Dracula, the Vampire Chronicles, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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