Frasquita
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| Title: | Frasquita |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Franz Lehár |
| Libretto : | Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert |
| Premiere: | May 12, 1922 |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna |
| Place and time of the action: | Barcelona and Paris in the 1920s |
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Frasquita is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár . The libretto was written by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert . The work had its world premiere on May 12, 1922 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna . A new version in French came on May 3, 1933 in Paris (as Opéra comique ) on the stage.
orchestra
Franz Lehár had planned an orchestral line-up consisting of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two saxophones, three horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a harp, a celesta as well as percussion and strings.
action
first act
Image: Square in front of the port in Barcelona
Factory owner Aristide Girot wants to pair his daughter Dolly with his nephew Armand, who is just arriving in Barcelona with his friend Hippolytus. At the same time a group of gypsies arrives and Armand catches the eye of the pretty gypsy named Frasquita. After a fiery dance in which she turns the heads of the men present, she gets into an argument with a jealous girl. Armand bravely intervenes and ends this argument. However, he then misses his valuable cigarette case and falsely accuses Frasquita of theft. When he realizes his mistake, he asks her forgiveness. He feels drawn to her and she seems to accept his advances. In reality, she is planning a perfidious game. In revenge for the false suspicion, she wants to deceive him and later snub him publicly.
Second act
Image: night club
Frasquita now works as a dancer in the Alhambra nightclub . Armand and his friend Hippolytus are guests of Aristide Girot and his daughter Dolly that evening. She is not happy with the idea of being connected to Armand because she fell in love with Hippolytus. This seems to reciprocate her feelings. In the meantime Armand Frasquita approaches and Girot surprises them both in a precarious position. He is disappointed in Armand and no longer wants him as a son-in-law. Frasquita sees her plan working. She thwarted Armand's planned marriage to Dolly and now demonstratively throws herself at other suitors' necks to snub Armand further. Armand bursts with jealousy and calls Frasquita a whore.
Third act
Image: Armand's apartment in Paris
Armand is visited by his friend Hippolyt, who tells him that he has meanwhile married Dolly. Unexpectedly, Frasquita also comes to visit, who meanwhile regrets her behavior and has to admit that she has fallen in love with Armand. But the latter is still angry because of her previous behavior and throws her out. Finally, Aristide Girot appears, who now wants to help his nephew after everything that has happened. By means of a ruse he manages to bring Armand and Frasquita together and thus conclude the plot with a happy ending .
music
In detail, the score includes the following music numbers, which can also be heard on the CD listed below:
No. 1 song: Give me a sign with the fan
No. 2 Gypsy choir and Frasquitas performance
# 3 song: Tell me, tell me
No. 4 Duet: If very gently, overnight
No. 5 song: Do you ask me what love is
No. 6 Valse Espangnole
No. 7 trio: girl, girl you are looking for a man
No. 8 Finale I.
No. 9 dance song: Go with me to the Alhambra
No. 10 song and dance: I know who my love will be tomorrow
No. 11 Duet: Don't you know what a heart full of longing desires
No. 12 Polka: I'd give something if I had a girl
No. 13 song: Have a blue four-poster bed
No. 14 March: Children, today I feel like twenty years
No. 15 Finale II
No. 15a Entr'akt (introduction to the third act)
No. 16 choir: Carnival procession
No. 17 Duet: O believe me my friend
No. 18 Waltz Duet: You, keep kissing me
No. 19 Finale III
Sound carrier
- Frasquita , recording from Bad Ischl with Rupert Bergmann , Laura Scherwitzl, Vincent Schirrmacher , Robert Mazdl a. v. a. The Franz Lehár Orchestra under the direction of Vinzenz Praxmarer and the choir of the Lehár Festival under the direction of Lazlo Gyüker played and sang . The CD was released in 2011 by the CPO label.
filming
Directed by Karel Lamač , the 84-minute feature film Frasquita was made in an Austrian production in 1934 starring Jarmila Novotná , Hans Heinz Bollmann, Heinz Rühmann , Charlott Daudert , Rudolf Carl and Hans Moser . The lexicon of international films judges: Old film adaptation of the Lehar operetta of the same name; Plenty of theatrical staging, with sparse comedy, provided by Rühmann and Moser, among others.
literature
- Hellmuth Steger, Karl Howe: Operettenführer. From Offenbach to musicals. 1st edition, Fischer Bücherei No. 225, Frankfurt am Main / Hamburg 1958.
- Anton Würz : Reclam's operetta guide . 23rd edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-010512-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subpage “Stücksuche” on www.musikundbuehne.de accessed on musikundbuehne.de on April 20, 2014
Web links
- Text of the song honey, I ask you, come tonight
- Trailer for the performance in the summer arena Baden 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBcQwDEefE
- Online operetta dictionary