The ridiculous Prince Jodelet
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| Original title: | The ridiculous Prince Jodelet |
Title page of the libretto from 1726 |
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| Shape: | Singspiel |
| Original language: | German , Italian |
| Music: | Reinhard Keizer |
| Libretto : | Johann Philipp Praetorius |
| Literary source: | Paul Scarron , Thomas Corneille |
| Premiere: | 1726 |
| Place of premiere: | Hamburg |
| Place and time of the action: | Southern Italy in the Middle Ages |
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The ridiculous Prince Jodelet is a baroque - opera - pastiche in five acts by Reinhard Keizer . The original name is jokingly singing game . The libretto wrote Johann Philipp Praetorius by the French comedies Jodelet ou le Maître valet (1643) by Paul Scarron and Le geôlier de soi-même ou Jodelet prince (1655) by Thomas Corneille , in turn, to the Spanish comedies Donde hay agravios no hay celos , y amo criado (1640) by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla and El alcalde de sí mismo by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1651). The first performance took place in 1726 in the Hamburg Gänsemarktoper . In keeping with contemporary tastes, the staging contained allusions to current events.
action
The opera takes place in medieval southern Italy. Federic, the Crown Prince of Sicily, killed Laura's fiancé, the Princess of Naples, in a tournament and, together with his confidante Octavius, is on the run from the soldiers of King Fernando. To camouflage, they swap their noble knightly armor for simple clothes and seek protection from Isabella, the sister of the victim, undetected. Meanwhile, Jodelet, a poor idler, and his companion Nicolo find the armor and put it on. Federic's persecutors mistake Jodelet for the fugitive prince, arrest him and bring him to Isabella. Federic appoints this as the guardian of yodelets. This makes the supposed Federic a prisoner of the real one. Since Jodelet's imprisonment as a supposed prince runs under pleasant conditions with good food, he willingly accepts this role. Federic falls in love with the king's daughter Laura and approaches her under the name Leonard. Federic's brother Eduard appears as a peace negotiator between Naples and Sicily. The mix-up clears up. The peace is sealed by the weddings of Crown Prince Federic of Sicily and Princess Laura of Naples as well as Eduard and Isabella. Jodelet and Nicolo are put back on the road.
layout
Some of the recitatives come from the yodelet opera Seinself Gefangener, performed in Hamburg in 1680, by Johann Wolfgang Franck (music) and Matsen (libretto). The recitatives and most of the arias are in German, some of which are dialectically colored. Other arias are Italian. Since it is a pasticcio, some arias originally come from other composers such as Antonio Caldara , Francesco Gasparini and Antonio Vivaldi or from earlier works by Keiser. Isabella's aria, accompanied by four muted violins, A tenderly loving Hertze comes from his opera Bretislaus . The instrumental movements, recitatives, choirs and most of the German-language arias are original compositions.
Performance history
The work was first performed in 1726 at the Hamburg Gänsemarktoper . The role of Erminda was sung by Margaretha Susanna Kayser .
More recently, the opera was performed again in 2004 at the Hamburg State Opera . The baroque specialist Alessandro de Marchi was the musical director. The director was Uwe Eric Laufenberg . The singers were Jörn Schümann (Fernando), Inga Kalna (Laura), Moritz Gogg (Federic), Christoph Pohl (Eduard), Julia Sukmanova (Isabella), Anke Herrmann and Gabriele Rossmanith (Erminde), Tamara Gura (Julia), Andreas Hörl (Octavius), Jan Buchwald (Jodelet), Christoph Genz (Nicolo), Michael Smallwood (Henriquez) and Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Sanchez). The performance on February 22, 2004 was broadcast live by the radio station NDR Kultur .
literature
Hansjörg Drauschke: The opera pasticcio "Jodelet" from 1726 . In: The ridiculous Prince Jodelet. Playful singing game in five acts by Reinhard Keizer. Edited by the Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg 2004, p. 10.
Web links
- The Ridiculous Printz Jodelet : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto from 1726 as a digitized version in the directory of prints from the 18th century published in German-speaking countries
- Work data for Der ridiculous Printz Jodelet based on MGG with discography at Operone
- Work information ( memento from July 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), table of contents ( memento from July 24, 2014 in the web archive.today ) and press comments ( memento from August 19, 2009 in the Internet archive ) on the Hamburg State Opera website
- Derbe weird - Report on the 2004 performance in the TAZ , accessed on August 3, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catherine Marchal-Weyl: Le Tailleur et Le Fripier - Transformations des personnages de la comedia sur la scène française (1630-1669) , Geneva 2007, p. 333 f.
- ↑ John H. Roberts: Jodelet. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ a b work and performance dates on operabaroque.fr (French), accessed on August 3, 2014.