The queen's lace kerchief

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Work data
Title: The queen's lace kerchief
Shape: operetta
Original language: German
Music: Johann Strauss (son)
Libretto : Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen and Richard Genée
Premiere: October 1, 1880
Place of premiere: Vienna
Place and time of the action: Portugal 1580
people
  • Cervantes ( baritone )
  • The King of Portugal (mezzo-soprano, originally trouser role / tenor )
  • The Queen ( soprano )
  • Don Sancho d'Avellaneday Villapinquedones, tutor to the king (tenor)
  • Donna Irene, confidante of the queen (soprano)
  • Count Villalobos y Rodriguez ( bass )
  • Marquis de la Mancha and Villareal ( baritone )
  • Chor ( Choir )

The Queen's Lace Scarf is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss (son) based on a libretto by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen and Richard Genée . It premiered on October 1, 1880 in the Theater an der Wien .

Performance history

The modern staged revival based on the Wiener Neue Johann Strauss Complete Edition was experienced on April 27, 2007 at the Dresden State Operetta in the staging by Arila Siegert and under the musical direction of Ernst Theis .

action

The King of Portugal is unable to rule his country. This work is done by Duke Villalobos. But that is unpopular with the subjects. When the poet Cervantes mocks the duke in a song, he is arrested. The king, however, orders his release and sends him to his wife so that he can read something from his works to her. The queen falls in love with the poet and gives him a lace shawl. On it she wrote: “The Queen loves you, but you are not King.” When Cervantes reads this, he thinks that the Queen is sending a message to her husband. He visits the king and advises him to keep an eye on his head of government.

Duke Villalobos sees Cervantes drop the lace shawl out of his pocket. He picks it up and gives it to the king. From the words written by his wife he draws the (wrong) conclusion that she has a relationship with the poet. He forbids Cervantes to stay longer at his court. He banishes the queen to a monastery.

Cervantes runs an inn near the monastery. When he hears what has happened, he wants to bring the royal couple back together. Disguised as a robber, he and his cronies kidnap the queen and bring her home. The king stops there on the same day. In the clothes of a waitress, his wife serves him his favorite food, whereupon he recognizes her. Cervantes serves up a story for the monarch that makes him forgiving. The royal couple returns happily to their court.

music

Johann Strauss' well-known waltz Roses from the South op. 388 from 1880 is based on motifs from the operetta The Queen's Lace , namely the truffle couplet of Act 1 and the romance Where the wild rose blooms in Act 2. The following music tracks can be heard on the recording of the Dresden State Operetta below:

  • Introduction: I've been waiting for hours (King, Don Sancho, Cervantes, Prime Minister, Choir)
  • Song to finish: Don Sancho, Bon appetit (Don Sancho)
  • Romance: It was a magically wonderful night (Queen)
  • Romance and Duet: She laughs at me (Donna Irene, King)
  • Truffle Couplet: Always comes back to my mind (King)
  • Duet: The oysters, how fine (King, Prime Minister)
  • Finale I: Once upon a time there was a youth (all)
  • Entr'act (introduction to act 2, orchestra)
  • Trio: Where the Wild Rose Blooms (Queen, Donna Irene, King)
  • Scene and couplet: Because this meeting is so extremely important (Prime Minister, Don Sancho, other ministers, men's choir)
  • Scene and couplet: professors and doctors called from Salamanca man (Donna Irene, Cervantes, Prime Minister, Choir)
  • Romance: shine of lights fills his mind (Cervantes)
  • Trio: Welcome, Your Excellency (Cervantes, Prime Minister, Don Sancho)
  • Couplet: Dining at a high table (Prime Minister)
  • Finale II: Hail our country, the King Hail (all)
  • Entr'act (introduction to act 3, orchestra)
  • Couplet: In the night with his zither (Don Sancho)
  • Song: I was just seventeen years old (Queen)
  • Entry march and bullfight song: Victory for the king ... There's a bullfight (choir, Donna Irene)
  • Finale III: A Queen Loves You (Everyone)

Musical re-use

Based on motifs from this operetta, in addition to the above-mentioned waltz "Roses from the South", further independent works by the composer were created, which are marked in his catalog raisonné with the opus numbers 391 to 394 and 406. These are the following works:

Recordings

From the top cloth of the queen , there is a recording with Nadja Stefanoff , Jessica Smooth, Elke Kottmair, Ralf Simon, Markus Liske, Hary Brachmann, Gritt Gnauck, choir and orchestra of the Dresden State Operetta , conducted by Ernst Theis . Released on the CPO label (2008).

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