On the green meadow
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| Title: | On the green meadow |
| Original title: | Na tý louce zelený |
| Shape: | Revue operetta |
| Original language: | Czech |
| Music: | Jara Beneš |
| Libretto : | V. Tolarski, translated and edited by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Hugo Wiener |
| Premiere: | (the Austrian version) October 9, 1936 |
| Place of premiere: | Volksoper Vienna |
| Place and time of the action: | The Austrian version takes place in Styria in the 1930s |
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On the green meadow there is an original Czech operetta in three acts (original title: Na tý louce zelený) by Jara Beneš based on a libretto by V. Tolarski. In his later years in Vienna, the composer reworked the work for Austria together with the two librettists Fritz Löhner-Beda and Hugo Wiener . It was premiered in this version on October 9, 1936 in the Vienna Volksoper .
orchestra
Two flutes , an oboe , two clarinets , a bassoon , three horns , two trumpets , three trombones , a harp , a celesta , large percussion and strings
Sequence of images
Act I , image 1: courtyard; Photo 2: In the forest; Image 3: Palace terrace; Picture 4: chicken yard; Photo 5: On the green meadow;
Act II , picture 6: fairground; Photo 7: In front of an inn; Image 8: Bench in the sunlight in the forest; Picture 9: meadow; Photo 10: Castle Park; Image 11: Salon;
Act III , picture 12: On the green meadow; Image 13: In front of a small train station; Photo 14: On the green meadow
action
During his lifetime, the childless Baron von Felseck transferred his huge estate to his niece Renée. However, this is currently experiencing its Sturm und Drang era and is about to reform the agricultural property from the ground up. The girl recently met Josef Bamberg, a professor of agriculture. She hopes that he will actively support her in implementing her plans. What Renée doesn't know: the professor is a brilliant theorist, but he understands next to nothing about the practical use of agriculture. It is therefore not surprising that Renée gets into serious conflicts with her estate manager, the forest engineer Heinz Liebling. The reform projects seem too unworldly for that. He is therefore giving up his service. After a few typical operetta-like entanglements and jealousies, the Baron von Felseck finally succeeds in settling the dispute between the two opponents. In the end, the practical forest engineer Liebling becomes the new man at Gut Felseck and Renée becomes his wife.
music
Beneš 'music is imaginative and pulsed with lively Slavic dance elements. The theme melody became popular and a catchphrase: On the green meadow / I asked her / whether she loved me. / 'Yes' she said! / As in paradise / I felt the same, / and the green meadow / was the kingdom of heaven.
Film adaptations
On September 24, 1953, the film adaptation of the operetta Auf dergrün Wiese by the Austrian production company "Mundus" was released in cinemas. Hans Holt , Hannelore Bollmann , Walter Müller , Lucie Englisch and Rudolf Carl played the main roles under the direction of Fritz Böttiger . Jara Beneš 'music was not heard in the original, but in an arrangement by Will Meisel and Frank Fox .
In 1971 the ZDF broadcast a television production in color, very close to the original operetta, directed by Edwin Zbonek . It included Ruth Gassmann , Peter Minich , Ernst Stankovski , Fritz Muliar , Helga Papouschek , Gerd Vespermann , Evi Kent and others. v. a. to see.
source
- Hellmuth Steger, Karl Howe: Operetta Guide (Fischer Bücherei; Bd. 225). Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1958.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the green field. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .