Grüezi (The Wild Man)
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| Title: | Hello |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Robert proud |
| Libretto : | Georg Burkhard and Rudolf Bertram for the lyrics (pseudonyms of Jakob Rudolf Welti, Karl Schmid-Bloss, Armin L. Robinson and Robert Gilbert) |
| Premiere: | November 3, 1934 |
| Place of premiere: | City Theater Zurich |
| Playing time: | 3.5 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | present |
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Grüezi is a revue operetta in 12 pictures (3 acts) by Robert Stolz . The piece is also known under the name "Servus! Servus!" , "Grüss Gott! Grüss Gott!" , "Ciao! Ciao!" , "Sky Blue Dreams" and "Wedding on Lake Constance" . The libretto comes from Jakob Rodulf Welti , Karl Schmid-Bloss , Armin L. Robinson and Robert Gilbert , but was published under the pseudonyms Georg Burkhard and Rudolph Bertram for the vocal texts. The work was premiered on November 3, 1934 at the Stadttheater Zurich .
orchestra
Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets or saxophones, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, a harp, a piano with celesta, two percussionists, banjo (guitar, Hawaiian guitar), strings, a solo tenor with Men's quartet in the orchestra room. 6–10 hanging drummers are required for stage music.
Sequence of images
Image 1: Marie, Marianne, Marietta, Image 2: The Wild Man, Image 3: The Three Musketeers, Image 4: The Gritli Oath, Intermediate Image : Karl Hell and his Secretary, Image 5: Grüezi, Image 6: Sky-Blue Dreams, Image 7 : Mixed plot à la Rossini, picture 8: when the semi-blonde dairymaid, picture 9: a bit of paprika, picture 10: a little favorite melody , picture 11: traditional costume party, picture 12: the mild man
action
place and time
A mountain health resort in Switzerland, present
In the Swiss alpine hotel "Zum Wilden Mann" the Swiss clocks strike accurately and life goes leisurely. But suddenly three events cause excitement and sky-blue dreams: A film team has announced that they are going to film, three charming young women from Paris, Vienna and Milan are expected to be the winners of a competition. So it is a good thing that the three sons of the hotel owner Blümli are returning from their military service at the same time. The three gentlemen are already firmly scheduled in their father's business, one as a sports teacher, the second as a cook and the third as a receptionist.
In addition to their father's work plans, the three of them have something in common: They are all in love with the secretary Gritli. However, she prefers to tie in with the interesting people from the film. Thank goodness there are the three winners of the competition who fit so well with the three sons of the hotelier that, after some confusion and complications, a four-fold engagement can be celebrated.
music
Robert Stolz's music mixes elements of the jazzy hit music of the 1930s with Viennese marching songs, waltzes and traditional Swiss songs. No. 14 in the seventh picture is a parody of the Willhelm Tell overture by Gioacchino Rossini . The Swiss pieces used were selected and edited with the help of Karl Heinrich David . There are, among others, Lueget, vo Berg und Tal , the Old Berner March , the Zapfenstreich, Brienzerburli, Jacques de Courtion and L'Inverno è passato. The marching song of the military scene No. 8 is by Robert Gilbert .
history
The piece was premiered as a revue operetta on behalf of the Zurich City Theater. The conductor of the world premiere was Victor Reinshagen . Directed by Carl Goldner . With the set designer Alois Carigiet and Emil Hegetschweiler as Gottfried Blümli, several members of the political cabaret Cornichon were involved in the premiere production. On the Cologne recording from 1954, Elsie Attenhofer, another exponent of the cornichons, can be heard as Gritli.
Grüezi controversy
Shortly after the Zurich riots over a performance of the political cabaret by Pfeffermühle , a full-page article against Grüezi was published on December 7, 1934 in the organ of the Swiss front movement New Switzerland . In Grüezi "the most sacred things of a people are abused" and the most sacred national symbols are defiled through the use of traditional costumes, Swiss flags and real army uniforms. As a result, there was a broad debate about the play and the commercial use of Swiss traditions on the operetta stage.
reception
By the end of the 1934/35 season, Grüezi was running over 100 times in Zurich, Bern, Lucerne and Basel. Under the modified name Servus! Hello! and with Johannes Heesters as Karl Hell, the play will run en suite at Scala Vienna from April 12, 1935 , where it will be performed 50 times. Further venues in the first year after the premiere are Prague, Marienbad and Innsbruck. In Prague and Innsbruck the piece runs under the customary Grüss Gott! Good day! . For performances in Germany the piece is renamed again in Himmelblaue Träume , under the same name (Himmelsblåa drömmar) it is also performed in Helsinki. After the première in Braunschweig in May 1938, it ran across the country. extremely successful. After the war, the Italian version Ciao! Was created in 1959 . Ciao! , which is also being filmed by RAI, and is also running again in Vienna, but now under the new name Himmelblaue Träume . At the 1969 Bregenz Festival , Grüezi was performed on the lake stage under the name of Hochzeit am Bodensee .
literature
- Wolf-Dietrich Brümmel and Friedrich van Booth: Robert Stolz, Melody of a Life , Hamburg 1967
- Eugen Semrau: Robert Stolz , Salzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1309-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.felix-bloch-orben.de/index.php5/pid/980/stueck/Himmelblaue%2BTr%25E4ume%2B%2528Gr%25FCezi%2529/Action/showPlay/fbe/990a5386260a7f1c6e3c04a0c752b72a/
- ↑ https://books.google.ch/books?id=xVNhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA146&dq=%22der+wilde+mann%22+robert+stolz+copyright&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim6aKj2sflAhUowsQBHUs4mann=BWYQ6AE22%TAA20 % 22% 20robert% 20stolz% 20copyright & f = false
- ^ Archives Stadttheater Zürich: Controversy between Dr. Kaufmann and Karl Schmid-Bloss from December 1934
- ↑ on this: Semrau: Robert Stolz p. 139f
- ↑ http://www.felix-bloch-orben.de/index.php5/pid/980/stueck/Himmelblaue%2BTr%25E4ume%2B%2528Gr%25FCezi%2529/Action/showPlay/fbe/990a5386260a7f1c6e3c04a0c752b72a/
- ↑ a b piano reduction
- ↑ a b Theater list in the Stadttheater Zürich, Luzern, Bern, Basel
- ^ New Switzerland, December 7, 1934
- ↑ April 13, 1935 Illustrated Kronen Zeitung
- ↑ May 28, 1935 Illustrated Kronen Zeitung
- ↑ 16.10.1935 General Tiroler Anzeiger
- ↑ 26.06.1935 Pilsner Tagblatt
- ↑ October 18, 1935 Innsbruck News
- ↑ May 8th, 1938 Signals for the musical world (Issue 20/21)
- ↑ 04.01.1939 Signals for the Musical World (Issue 1)
- ↑ 03.02.1939 Hamburger Nachrichten - Anniversary performance in the Hamburger Volksoper
- ↑ October 27, 1938 German News Office
- ↑ https://www.vitomolinari.it/televisione/84/ciao_ciao.html
- ↑ https://theadok.at/search_thd?search_api_fulltext=himmelblaue+tr%C3%A4ume
- ↑ http://chronik.bregenzerfestspiele.net/de/chronik?dp_search_year_nid=439&cnid=861&spos=2507