Cousin bobby
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| Title: | Cousin bobby |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Carl Millöcker |
| Libretto : | Benno Jacobsohn, Franz Wagner |
| Premiere: | 1906 |
| Place and time of the action: | a grand hotel in Saxon Switzerland around 1906 |
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Cousin Bobby is an operetta in three acts by the composer Carl Millöcker . The libretto was written by Benno Jacobsohn and Franz Wagner, and this play was performed for the first time in Vienna in 1906 as an arrangement by Bertram Sänger . Ernst Reiterer had rearranged this work by the composer, who died in 1899, for this purpose.
action
Act 1 - front garden of the Grand Hotel
Nero Sanftleben is the director of his Grand Hotel in Saxon Switzerland. But since he runs it as a reform hotel , business is going very badly. At the moment he only has one guest, Soubrette Marietta, who fled from her impresario Bobby Spielvogel. For two weeks, Marietta has been waiting in the hotel for an advance payment from her new employer in Moscow. Since director Sanftleben is in love with his guest, she is not worried about the current insolvency.
Agamemnon is expected at the hotel; the son of Lydia Mogulopulos and her deceased Macedonian robber captain and mutton herd owner Mogulopulos. Agamemnon is the nephew of Nero Sanftleben and since he can expect a rich inheritance, he should marry his daughter Herta according to Nero's will. But she is reluctant to join because she loves the accountant, Ewald Bräunlich.
On the trip to the uncle's grand hotel, Agamemnon and his four sisters are robbed. All their money and clothes are stolen from them and they now have to telegraph Nero Sanftleben for 800 Marks. This amount is absolutely the last cash in the hotel cash register and Sanftleben now instructs his accountant Bräunlich to deliver the money.
Just as Ewald Bräunlich is about to leave with the money, Bobby Spielvogel arrives at the hotel with four dancers. Since nobody knows Agamemnon personally, Spielvogel uses his chance, pretends to be there and introduces his dancers as his sisters. Nero Sanftleben, touched, hands him the money and receives him solemnly.
Act 2 - space behind the Grand Hotel
In the middle of the welcome party, the real Agamemnon suddenly bursts. The director thinks he's the new head waiter and Agamemnon goes into this game first. Since Marietta is still penniless, she now accepts Sanftleben's marriage proposal, but keeps her former lover, Bobby Spielvogel, in the game to be on the safe side. In this situation she meets Agamemnon, whom she knows from Vienna and with whose help she received her new engagement in Moscow.
Lydia Mogulopulos arrives unexpectedly with her four daughters. In order to refute her accusation of fraud, Mme Mogulopulos makes a marriage proposal and harasses her during a rendezvous . When Nero Sanftleben now wants to betroth his daughter to Agamemnon (the disguised Bobby Spielvogel), his sister Lydia vigorously objects that he had promised her marriage.
A scandal: the mother wants to marry her own son! Spielvogel (as Agamemnon) weighs it down and invents a story according to which Lydia once fell from a donkey and since then has had some funny ideas . At that moment the new head waiter appears (the disguised Agamemnon), whom Lydia immediately declares to be her only legitimate son.
Act 3 - Ladies' Salon in the Grand Hotel
After a general discussion, there was a general reconciliation. At Lydia's request, this hour was celebrated with rivers of champagne, so that those present were all quite drunk in the end. The next day during the reconstruction of the previous evening, Nero Sanftleben and the real Bobby Spielvogel find out that they had drunk Brotherhood. Spielvogel was also officially engaged to Lydia Mogulopulos. Nero Sanftleben, however, still refuses to consent to Herta's marriage to Ewald Bräunlich.
Bobby Spielvogel wants to help and tries to hypnotize Nero Sanftleben, but is almost beaten up by him because of it. In this mess, the real Agamemnon promises to invest the proceeds from the sale of his 80,000 mutton in his uncle's hotel. Freed from all financial worries, Sanftleben now gives his daughter Herta permission to marry her Ewald.
Lydia Mogulopulos also insists on keeping the promise of marriage given to her. However, Bobby Spielvogel still needs time to get his business sorted out. He now advises Lydia to travel back to Macedonia and begin preparing for the wedding. Shortly after Lydia Mogulopulos left, Bobby Spielvogel fled to Moscow with his dancers.
literature
- Leo Melitz: Guide through the operettas. Globus, Berlin 1917, SS 26–28.
- Carl Millöcker: cousin Bobby. Operetta in 3 acts. Cranz, Leipzig 1895.