The Hungarian wedding
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| Title: | The Hungarian wedding |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Nico Dostal |
| Libretto : | Hermann Hermecke |
| Premiere: | February 4, 1939 |
| Place of premiere: | Stuttgart |
| Place and time of the action: | Hungary around 1750 |
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The Hungarian Wedding is an operetta in a prelude and three acts (four pictures) by Nico Dostal . Hermann Hermecke wrote the libretto . The work had its world premiere on February 4, 1939 in Stuttgart.
orchestra
Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a harp, a celesta, percussion and strings
action
place and time
The operetta is set in Hungary in the middle of the 18th century, the prelude in the Count's castle in Sibiu , Acts 1 and 2 in a village in the Puszta and Act 3 in the then capital, Pressburg .
Prelude and Act One
Empress Maria Theresa wants to give the Hungarian part of her empire a boost. In order to win over young men as settlers, she has promised all interested parties cheap plots of land with fertile farmland and classy, married girls. But you shouldn't always believe assurances from politicians; because the dashing young girls have turned out to be old women whose beauty has long since faded. When a delegation of the settlers is granted audience with the empress, they openly lament their suffering. Maria Theresa instructs Count Stefan Bardossy to investigate the matter. However, he is anything but delighted about the order, as he has just made an amorous love affair with him. On the spur of the moment, he orders his servant Arpád to travel to the settlers and pretend to be counts. But no sooner has his servant left than he is plagued by scruples. Now he goes on the trip and disguises himself as a farmer.
Second act
The mayor of the village of Poplaka in the Puszta, Josef von Kismarty, and his wife Frusina got wind of the threatened investigation. They quickly round up the 14 prettiest girls in the village, including their daughter Janka, and pass them off as peasant women. The auditor is supposed to be deceived. It doesn't take long for a few couples to find each other. This also includes Janka von Kismarty and Stefan von Bardossy. When Janka's mother notices that the two seem to take the marriage seriously, she is outraged. A farmer as a son-in-law would just have been missing! The noble von Pötök, Stefan's uncle, had the same thoughts; because a simple peasant girl doesn't fit into his noble family. So what to do He rushes to Frusina von Kismarty and explains to her that her daughter and his nephew are playing a mistake-made comedy. When Janka learns the true identity of her bridegroom from her mother, she no longer wants to be the scapegoat in a staged game. She puts a veil on her maid Anna, which covers her face beyond recognition, and lets her marry the Count.
Third act
After Count Stefan noticed the dizziness, he became enraged. In the royal palace in Pressburg he asks the empress to annul his marriage. Although this is basically ready to comply with his request, her decision is linked to the condition that another woman can be found who truly loves him. Because Janka has now recognized that her behavior on the wedding day was extremely foolish and that she secretly longs for her beloved Stefan, nothing stands in the way of the happy ending.
Sound carrier
Large operetta cross-section at EMI -CLASSICS with Margit Schramm , Anton de Ridder, Willi Brokmeier , Isy Orén , the choir of the Städtische Bühnen Köln and the Philharmonia Hungarica under the direction of Roman Dostal
filming
The ZDF filmed operetta 1968. Directed by Kurt Wilhelm played Maria Tiboldi, Peter Minich , Ferry Gruber , Monika Dahlberg , Kurt Großkurth and Maria Schell the leading roles.