The vagabond (operetta)
| Work data | |
|---|---|
| Original title: | The vagabond |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Carl Zeller |
| Libretto : | Moritz West , Ludwig Held |
| Premiere: | October 30, 1886 |
| Place of premiere: | Carltheater in Vienna |
Der Vagabund is an operetta in three acts by Carl Zeller , which premiered on October 30, 1886 in Vienna .
action
place and time
The operetta takes place at the beginning of the 19th century in Georgia during the Russian occupation, in the third act in Moscow .
1st act
The first act takes place in Tbilisi in 1812. The vagabond Ossip involuntarily takes on the role of the leader of a revolution by the Georgians. He allies himself with the vagabond Alexis and falls in love with Marizza, the niece of the police chief of Tbilisi, Ivan “the terrible”, Osip and Alexis overhear a conversation between the police chief and General Gregor Gregorowitsch, in which the two are planning the beautiful Marizza to the Grand Duke who desires them. When Gregor and Countess Prascovia want to take the girl away, Osip and Alexis free them with the help of the rebellious people, but are captured by Ivan and his Cossacks .
2nd act
While Ossip initially remains free, Alexis is sentenced to 20 years in a prison camp in Siberia . However, through a memento, Iwan believes he has a biological son in Alexis from his childhood love with the gypsy Thamar and changes his judgment so that Alexis is free and Osip should come to Siberia for 20 years. When the fortune teller Dyrsa wants to free Ossip on the condition that he marry her, Ossip refuses. Countess Prascovia now claims to recognize Ossip as her prodigal son on the basis of another memento, which in turn questions Ivan's fatherhood. On condition of marriage, Gregor Ossip then declared to Dyrsa that Alexis had stolen the memorabilia and that Ossip was a fraud, whereupon both are chased away by the people.
3rd act
The last act takes place in a country house in Moscow, where Ivan and Gregor continue to try to bring Marizza to the Grand Duke. The two vagabonds show Dyrsa more, more believable, memorabilia. When Dyrsa brings the pieces to the Countess and the Grand Duke, a coat of arms in a diaper reveals that Osip is the Countess' son and Alexis is the Grand Duke's son. It also emerges that Gregor was promoted from lieutenant to general only because of a typing error . As a result, Alexis can now become general, Ossip marries Dyrsa out of gratitude and the Grand Duke renounces marrying Marizza in favor of his son.
Music numbers
Prelude (orchestra)
1st act
- Introduction
- Dadian and Chor: Only people come quietly
- Ossip and choir: I move through the world healthy
- Aang, Ossip and Chor: I'll take, I'll take!
- The Lesghinka of the Marizza, Dyrsa and women's choir
- Do you know this melody?
- On, Lesghinka sound, sound
- Serenade by Alexis, Marizza and Dyrsa: I come every night with tones in love
- Septet by Marizza, Dyrsa, Prascovia, Alexis, Ossip, Gregor and Iwan: Petersburg! Petersburg!
- March duo of Gregor and Iwan: I should be needed as a companion for you
- Vagabond Choir and Ensemble
- Choir: Clip, click. We go to the begging watch
- Dyrsa, Alexis, Ossip and Chor: Nobody disturbs, everything hears quietly and quietly
- final
- Alexis, Ossip, Gregor and Chor: There is the wine, now pouring, the victory, it should be celebrated.
- Alexis, Ossip, Gregor and Chor: Let's raise our cups and let the beautiful women live
- Ossip: Oh, you don't have to be embarrassed
- Alexis and Marizza: Your rose cheeks awaken my desire
- Alexis, Marizza, ensemble and choir: And I have to part with you forever
Intermezzo (orchestra)
2nd act
- Introduction
- Dyrsa, Alexis and Ossip: Come in! Well wait Cujon, come here!
- Couplet der Dyrsa: The Russian, yes the real one
- Departure, chorus: The Russian takes the bottle of Wutky out of his pocket
- Quartet by Dyrsa, Ossip, Gregor and Iwan:
- I read something from an uncle?
- Map reading has always been a fine art
- Couplets des Ivan: Just a few weeks ago, Lieutenant
- Duet by Alexis and Marizza: They say that a prince sees you
- Duet by Dyrsa and Ossip:
- Indeed, I confess
- As delicate as the rose
- final
- Dyrsa, Ossip, Gregor and Chor: We come here to dance, in full youthful splendor
- Ossip and Chorus: Do you want me to choose you?
- Women's choir: He has to be pretty, he has to be young
- Ensemble, women's choir and choir: the matter is indeed, not clear at the moment
Intermezzo (orchestra)
3rd act
- Introduction, Gregor and Choir of Grenadiers: Have Eight, Day and Night
- Ivan's couplets:
- A Russian often travels to Vienna in business
- That would be so natural, but he doesn't
- Marching trio of Dyrsa, Alexis and Ossip: Colonel Amor leads his regiment patent to victory
- Finale, Marizza, Dyrsa, Prakovia, Ossip, Dadian, Iwan and Chor: Just march and try, they say in the regiment
reception
Der Vagabund is one of Zeller's later works, the musical quality of which was praised by critics as his best work, despite its lower level of awareness. After the premiere, 49 performances were given in a row in Vienna. Until October 1887, the operetta was also played with success in the German cities of Berlin , Hamburg , Leipzig , Munich and Würzburg . There were further performances in the USA , Austria and Czechoslovakia .
After the operetta had not been performed for a hundred years, it was successfully performed again in May 2015 in a chamber music version of St. Peter in der Au .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Klotz: Operetta. Portrait and manual of an unheard-of art. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2004, p. 822.
- ↑ a b c d e Operetta Lexicon
- ^ A b c Karl Zeller: The vagabond: Operetta in three acts. Hansebooks, Norderstedt 2016. ISBN 978-3-743-41076-3
- ↑ Karl Zeller. The Vagabund by Carl Zeller - first performance in St. Peter in der Au . Retrieved June 2, 2019