The Count of Monte Christo (Musical)
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| Title: | The earl of Monte Christo |
| Original title: | The Count of Monte Christo |
| Original language: | English |
| Music: |
Frank Wildhorn (melodies)
Koen Schoots (arrangements) Kim Scharnberg (orchestration) |
| Book: | Jack Murphy |
| Lyrics: | Jack Murphy, German by Kevin Schroeder |
| Literary source: | Alexandre Dumas |
| Premiere: | March 14, 2009 |
| Place of premiere: | Theater St. Gallen |
| Playing time: | approx. 2½ hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Mid-19th century France |
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World premiere at the Theater Sankt Gallen (CH)
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The Count of Monte Christo is a musical by Frank Wildhorn (melodies), Koen Schoots (arrangements), Kim Scharnberg (orchestration) and Jack Murphy (lyrics). It is based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas and was premiered in German on March 14, 2009 in Switzerland at the Theater St. Gallen under the direction of Andreas Gergen .
The plot is based on the novel, whereby the plot of the extensive novel is very much shortened. The playing time is about two and a half hours.
The CD with the original English songs, released at the end of 2008, reached number one in Germany and number four in Great Britain even before its premiere. In 2010 the piece was shown in Korean translation in Seoul . In Germany, the piece was first performed in 2012 at the Musical Comedy Leipzig (Leipzig Opera). In 2013 the piece was performed at the Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg , and in 2014 at the Frankenfestspiele in Röttingen .
Song list
1st act
- Prologue - Fiat justitia (Ensemble)
- For a lifetime (Edmond, Mercédès)
- Raise the glass (ensemble)
- History (Mondego, Danglars, Villefort)
- Never alone (Edmond, Mercédès)
- Every day a little death (Edmond, Mercédès, Mondego)
- Lessons (Abbé Faria, Edmond)
- Kings (Faria, Edmond)
- Pirates - Truth or Dare (Luisa Vampa, Edmond, Ensemble)
- The treasure [reprise kings] (Edmond)
- As the world hugs me (Mercédès)
- Dance the Tarantella (courtesans)
- Hell on Earth (Edmond)
2nd act
- Carnival in Rome [Reprise Tarantella] (Ensemble)
- Ah, women (Edmond, Albert)
- The way you hear (ensemble)
- Those eyes / the man is dead (Mercédès, Edmond)
- The trap / too much is never enough (Edmond, Danglars, Villefort, Mondego)
- Beautiful glow (valentine)
- All the time (Mercédès)
- The man I once was (Edmond)
- Hell on earth [recapitulation] (Mondego, Edmond)
- Finale [Reprise Never Alone] (Edmond, Mercédès)
Individual evidence
- ↑ World premiere of "The Count of Monte Christo" . St. Galler Tagblatt . February 23, 2009. Retrieved September 2, 2012.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ mir media - interface engineering, cologne - www.mir.de: The Count of Monte Christo - Frank Wildhorn / Jack Murphy. (No longer available online.) In: Oper Leipzig. Archived from the original on March 31, 2016 ; accessed on March 31, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.buehne-tecklenburg.de/der_graf_von_monte_christo_musical.html
swell
- Focus of the St. Galler Tagblatt from March 7, 2009
- Song list in the program The Count of Monte Cristo . Pp. 20-21.
literature
- Markus Zeller: The Count of Monte Cristo. First class production of an average musical . In: musicals . Issue 136, April / May 2009.