Bel Ami (musical)

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Musical dates
Title: Bel Ami
Original language: German
Music: Peter Kreuder
Book: Therese Angeloff and Franz Gribitz
Lyrics: Therese Angeloff
Literary source: Guy de Maupassant
Premiere: May 25, 1960
Place of premiere: Vienna , Raimund Theater
Place and time of the action: Paris around 1900
Roles / people
  • Georges Duroy, called Bel Ami
  • Monsieur Laroche, Colonial Minister
  • Monsieur Clermont, owner of the newspaper "La Vie Française"
  • Adrienne, his wife
  • Suzanne, daughter of both
  • Monsieur Forestier, editor-in-chief
  • Madeleine, his wife
  • La Cobra, journalist
  • Monsieur Potin, journalist
  • Woprschalek, tailcoat lender
  • Clotilde de Marelle
  • Monsieur Croissant
  • Count Latour
  • Henri, his son
  • Rachel, dancer
  • Margot, prostitute
  • The police superintendent
  • A butler
  • Newspaper sellers, policemen
  • Dancers

Bel Ami is the title of a musical by Peter Kreuder based on the novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant, which premiered in 1960 (with Johannes Heesters in the title role) .

action

Georges Duroy, a French soldier with a dubious past, returns to Paris from the Algerian war . Although he has no financial means or any other talents, he has great success with women who call him "Bel Ami" and who give him money and career advancement. His friend Forestier, the editor-in-chief of an influential newspaper, introduced him to the French colonial minister, Laroche. From this he receives the order to write a series of articles about Algeria. Since he is unable to do so, Forestier's wife Madeleine helps him, who also writes her husband's articles and supports the colonial minister's policy, which is mixed up with stock market speculation. When Forestier is shot dead by the colonial minister in a duel that has been declared a hunting accident, Duroy becomes editor-in-chief and marries Madeleine. However, that is not an obstacle for him to continue playing the Bel Ami. So he is warned by one of his friends that the Colonial Minister wants to drop him again. Another then helps him convict the Colonial Minister as Madeleine's lover. So he can force Laroche to resign and become colonial minister himself. He divorces Madeleine and marries Suzanne, the daughter of his predecessor. When the latter wants to arrest him for crimes committed in Algeria, Bel Ami, as minister, orders his own amnesty. Georges Duroy, who was convicted of embezzlement for his friend Forestier during his military service in Algeria and then escaped from prison, reached the height of his power in the corrupt Parisian society around 1900 despite his dark past.

Songs

  • Sensations
  • A newspaper
  • Ça c'est Paris
  • Come with me, Cherie
  • I came home from Algiers tanned and burnt down
  • What do you learn from soldiers?
  • Bel Ami, lovely friend
  • Song of the tailcoat lender
  • Honey, milk and oil flow in Algiers
  • Get out of your clothes and the old way of life
  • I'm at the start
  • When mom says I have to go to bed
  • Palm trees rustle in the wind in Algeria
  • Today the world gets to know me
  • When you are given money
  • Lament of a young widow
  • Now I give up
  • The eye of the law watches
  • It shouldn't be a scandal
  • Bel Ami

See also

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