From the mattress tomb

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Opera dates
Title: From the mattress tomb
Shape: "Liederspiel" in four parts
Original language: German
Music: Günter Bialas
Libretto : Günter Bialas
Literary source: Heinrich Heine
Premiere: 1992
Place of premiere: Kiel Opera House
Place and time of the action: Paris, 19th century
people
  • Heine I (speaking role)
  • Heine II ( baritone )

Shapes from Heine's life:

From the Matratzengruft is an opera by the composer Günter Bialas , which was premiered in 1992 under the direction of Rosamund Gilmore at the Kiel Opera House .

layout

Bialas had created his last stage work in 1983, initially as a song cycle , but expanded it in 1990/91 to a “Liederspiel after and with Heinrich Heine”. The four-part composition for narrator, soloist, choir and orchestra has a strong chamber music character. It is suitable for both a concert and a staged performance. The song numbers alternate with recitations by the narrator.

content

The main character of the opera is the poet Heinrich Heine , who called the eight-year sick bed that preceded his death the “mattress tomb”. Tormented by illness and pain, he looks back on his life in a sometimes mocking, sometimes sad and serious way. In addition to the young and old, dying Heine, other characters from his life appear, including Elise Krinitz , the "Mouche".

The opera's libretto is based on texts from Heine's last years: excerpts from his memoirs, letters and wills, poems from 1848–1856, especially those from the Romanzero collection , but also passages from the cycle created in the early 1840s Germany. A winter fairy tale .

The titles of the four parts and the individual numbers are:

  • To Düsseldorf on the Rhine ...
  • 1st part: love
    • Scene and Arioso: She doesn't love me!
    • intermezzo
    • I kissed the red cap
    • Three love songs
    • In the morning I get up and ask ...
    • The Nightingale
    • When two separate
    • Frankly, what a terrible disease ...
  • 2nd part: Romanzero
    • Old song
    • It's also a heartbreaking thing ...
    • Lazarus
    • Whims of lovers
    • The subject, the material of the poem ...
    • memory
    • intermezzo
    • The following legend ...
  • Part 3: Germany - A winter fairy tale
    • I think of Germany at night ...
    • While the little one trilled with heavenly lust ...
    • The Lorelei
    • Be calm, I'll take the Rhine ...
    • The Silesian weavers
    • This admission that the future belongs to the communists ...
  • 4th part: lamentations
    • The sun rose near Paderborn
    • It is the old Jehovah himself ...
    • The departing
    • Maybe God is not right at all ...
    • The lotus flower
    • Yes, I had enemies in this world ...
    • He should not be thought of
    • O miserere
    • How much I must envy their fate!
    • Lamento for piano
    • Where?
    • I really don't know if I deserve it
    • Eternity how long are you

literature

  • Gabriele E. Meyer (Ed.): "No sound too much". Günter Bialas in personal testimonies and in the mirror of his time . Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7618-1396-1 .

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