The Rastel binder
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| Title: | The Rastel binder |
| Original title: | The Rastel binder |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Franz Lehár |
| Libretto : | Victor Léon |
| Premiere: | December 20, 1902 |
| Place of premiere: | Carltheater , Vienna |
| Place and time of the action: | a Slovak village around 1900 |
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The Rastelbinder is an operetta with a prelude and two acts by the composer Franz Lehár and the librettist Victor Léon . This work had its world premiere on December 20, 1902 at the Carltheater in Vienna . The premiere conductor was Alexander von Zemlinsky and Victor Léon directed. A Rastel binder is the Austrian version of a tinker . After Wiener Frauen , this was Lehár's second operetta.
action
- Prelude - Voitech's hut on the left, Blacek's farm on the right, divided by Dorfstraße
Voitech and Babuschka's foster child is now twelve years old and will now try his luck as a mousetrap dealer with some of his peers in the city (Vienna). It is customary to celebrate the boys' farewell with a party at which they are also engaged. When they return to their village after several years of wandering, they are allowed to marry.
Janku gets engaged to his milk sister Suza. When Suza found out by chance that her parents are too poor to give Janku some money to help her get started, she goes begging for her fiancé. The rich farmer Blacek gives nothing, but the poor traveling merchant Pfefferkorn does. He trades in onions and is stingy; but when he learns what the money is for, he immediately donates a silver guilder to Suza. In order to complete this trade correctly, he issues Suza a promissory note for this amount including 5% interest. Suza signs this contract with a cross, as she is unable to write.
- Act 1 - Twelve years later, in a sheet metal shop
The children have grown up and everyone has forgotten the oath of engagement. Through the mediation of the dealer Pfefferkorn, Janku came to the master plumber Glöppler in Vienna. There he completed an apprenticeship, and now, after he has been acquitted , his teacher wants to betroth him to his daughter Mizzi.
Milosch, who is currently serving as a soldier in Vienna, now loves Suza. She returns his love and wants to visit him in Vienna. She asks the dealer Pfefferkorn to take her into town. Convinced that Suza wanted to see Janku, he brought her to Glöppler's house. He believes he is doing a good work and recalls the pledge of childhood. With a heavy heart, Janku and Suza are convinced that they have to keep this promise. Too late, Pfefferkorn sees that he has destroyed the happiness and love of Janku, Milosch, Mizzi and Suza through his good-naturedness.
- Act 2 - parade ground of the Ulan barracks
In his desperation, Milosch deserted. Assuming he wants to kill himself, Pfefferkorn, Janku and Suza are looking for him. In the barracks, Mizzi meets her friends Gisa and Lisa. The two young women disguised themselves as Uhlans in order to visit their fiancée Grobl and von Straßenberg without being noticed. When Mizzi and Suza are attempted to be chased out of the barracks as civilians, Gisa and Lisa give their uniforms to them.
Disguised as soldiers, Mizzi and Suza now go in search of Milosch. Meanwhile - also in the barracks - Janku and Pfefferkorn are taken for the urgently awaited reservists. After getting dressed and visiting the hairdresser, the reservists should demonstrate their riding skills.
There is a lot of confusion in which everyone - including Milosch - find each other again. In the meantime, he had consulted and learned that this engagement ceremony had no legal or ecclesiastical significance. Now Milosch can finally marry his Suza and Janku his Mizzi.
Music numbers
overture
foreplay
No. 1 Introduction (choir and Milosch): The Slovak
No. 2 Children's Choir and Duettino (Suza and Janku): There are already Rastelbinder boys
No. 3 Entreelied des Pfefferkorn: A every person does something
No. 4 Finale I: So now Adjes is said; Song of Pfefferkorn: This is a simple bill and children's choir with the Polish song Spanem Bohem
1st act
No. 5 Introduction (Mizzi and Janku): Thank you very much
No. 6 Duet (Janko and Milosch): Well, I wish you all the luck
No. 7 Entree of Suza: Oh finally, finally today
No. 8 Memories (Pfefferkorn, Janku, Suza) Just think, just think
No. 9 Song of Janku: I am a Viennese child
No. 10 Duettino (Suza, Milosch): When two love each other
No. 11 Quadrille (Pfefferkorn, Suza): The main thing at the ball is noble behavior
No. 12 Finale II: Hello Mr. Uncle; Wiener Lied (Mizzi, Janku): Didn't see it; Gallop (everyone) you rabble, what a dizziness
2nd act
No. 12a Introduction to the Trumpet Signal
No. 13 song with choir: The two comrades and song of Janku: An infantist from number four
No. 14 Gavotte (Suza, Mizzi): The men's clothes, unfortunately they don't fit
Orchestral interlude
No. 15 final chant (Suza, Janku, Pfefferkorn): This is a simple calculation
Sound carrier
The above music numbers come from the booklet of a CD about an ORF radio recording from 1981. After that, this recording has been left in its original form. The CD was released on the CPO label . Participants were the ORF Symphony Orchestra (today Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, RSO Vienna) and the ORF choir under the direction of Hans Graf as well as Fritz Muliar , Elfie Hobarth , Helga Papouschek , Heinz Zednik and Adolf Dallapozza
In the historical sound documents series , the label Cantus Classics (Line) released a complete recording of the 1960 operetta on 2 CDs in 2018. The choir and orchestra of the Wiener Rundfunk sang and played under the direction of Max Schönherr . As soloists u. a. Hildegard Rössl-Majdan, Rudolf Christ , Elisabeth Rohn, Kurt Preger , Else Macha and Waldemar Kmentt also participated .
literature
- Leo Melitz: Guide through the operettas . Globus-Verlag, Berlin 1917, pp. 182-184