The Marked (Opera)
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Title: | The drawn |
Charles Workman as Alviano, |
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Shape: | thoroughly composed |
Original language: | German |
Music: | Franz Schreker |
Libretto : | Franz Schreker |
Literary source: | Hidalla by Frank Wedekind |
Premiere: | April 25, 1918 |
Place of premiere: | Frankfurt / Main Opera House |
Playing time: | 2:45 |
Place and time of the action: | Genoa in the 16th century |
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The Drawn is an opera in three acts by Franz Schreker , who composed the music and wrote the libretto . The plot is based on the play Hidalla or Being and Having (1904) by Frank Wedekind and takes place in the Genoa of the Renaissance period. The opera premiered at the Frankfurt Opera in 1918 .
action
first act
First scene (room in the palace of Alviano Salvago, in which he and the six Genoese noblemen Guidobald, Menaldo, Michelotto, Gonsalvo, Julian and Paolo are gathered): Alviano Salvago is a young, hunchbacked nobleman from Genoa who loves his deformity who has renounced women. In the sea in front of the city he had an artificial island called Elysium built, in whose secret grotto Genoese noblemen under the leadership of Count Tamare celebrate orgies with forcibly kidnapped citizens and then kill the girls. The city is terrified by the repeated disappearances of young girls. Salvago himself has neither set foot on the island nor participated in the orgies, and is ashamed of these atrocities. In order to end the desecration of his dream place, he now explains to his six friends that he intends to donate the island to the city the next day. All citizens of Genoa will be able to enter Elysium .
Second scene (The six nobles among themselves): The six friends fear that their deeds will be discovered and consider the Salvago plan to be a foolish undertaking. They are impatiently waiting for Count Tamare to find a way out and discuss the reluctance of their helper Pietro to participate in the planned kidnapping of the town's daughter Ginevra Scotti. In the third scene , Tamare joins in and tells of a beautiful, unknown woman, with whom he fell in love when she drove past him in her father's carriage.
Fourth scene (nobles and tamarins, Podestà Nardi appears with the senators, his wife and daughter Carlotta Nardi, plus Salvago and the notary): The island is to be donated by a notary, but at the request of the citizens, the Duke Adorno should first consent. Tamare recognizes Carlotta as the woman he has fallen in love with. In the conversation she rejects him.
Fifth scene (Martuccia and Pietro): Pietro argues with Salvago's housekeeper Martuccia, with whom he is having a relationship. With lies and good words, he persuades her to hide Ginevra Scotti, whom he kidnapped on behalf of Julian, in the palace of Salvago.
Sixth scene (Salvago and Carlotta): Carlotta, who has a heart condition and paints, asks Salvago to model for her . She is able to see the inside of a person and has seen him many times in passing and recognized the beauty of his soul in Salvago's form and finally painted it. Only the face is still missing. Salvago finally agrees to visit her for a portrait in her studio.
Second act
First scene (room in the palace of Duke Adorno, Podestà and three senators) Duke Adorno's hesitation to agree to the donation is disapproved by Podestà and the senators.
Second scene (Adorno and Tamare) Duke Antoniotto Adorno is modeled on the historical Antoniotto II Adorno (1479–1528), who was Doge of the Republic of Genoa from 1522 to 1527 . Tamare reveals the secret of the island and the love grotto to Adorno, and asks him to stop the donation.
Third scene (after curtain and metamorphosis: In the studio of Carlottas, Carlotta and Salvago) In the studio scene , Salvago and Carlotta confess their love for each other.
Third act
Scene one to twentieth (Elysium) The citizens of Genoa come to the island and admire its beauty; Salvago asks Podestà for Carlotta's hand. She answers evasively and goes for a walk alone. In the grotto she meets Tamare, who seduces her and takes her down to the love chamber. The count, in order to direct the guilt of Tamare and the other nobles, accuses Salvago of kidnappings. The people don't believe him, however, and Salvago is able to flee, heated because he fears for the missing Carlotta. He finds the woman lying in bed, unconscious, and Tamare at her side, who sardonically humiliates and humiliates him because of his love for Carlotta, whereupon Salvago stabs him to death in great excitement. Carlotta wakes up and, with her last breath, demands Tamare, with whom she wants to die together. Salvago goes mad and escapes.
literature
- Christopher Hailey: Franz Schreker. 1878-1934. A cultural biography. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1993, ISBN 0-521-39255-1 (Chapter 3, pp. 65ff. In the Google book search).
- Lewis Wickes: Studies on aspects of Schreker's opera "The Drawn". Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 1993 (dissertation from 1990).
- David Klein: Beauty is the prey of the strong, Franz Schreker's opera “Die Gezeichen” (= Schreker Perspektiven 2), Are Musikverlag, Mainz 2010 (dissertation 2008)
Web links
- The Marked : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Plot and libretto of Die Gezeichen (Opera) at Opera-Guide target page due to URL change currently not available
- For the first performance in the Berlin State Opera , Vossische Zeitung , January 6, 1921.