Izeÿl

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Work data
Title: Izeÿl
Original title: Izeÿl
Original language: German
Music: Eugen d'Albert
Libretto : Rudolf Lothar
Premiere: November 6, 1909
Place of premiere: Hamburg
Place and time of the action: India, about 600 years before the birth of Christ
people
  • The Prince ( baritone )
  • The Princess Sarvillaka ( mezzo-soprano )
  • Scindya, her son, young prince ( tenor )
  • Ram Singh, young prince ( tenor )
  • Cavaradjah, young prince ( tenor )
  • The Yogi ( bass )
  • Izeÿl ( soprano )
  • First princess
  • Second princess
  • Djaul
  • people
  • Brahmin
  • Penitent
  • Huris

Izeÿl is a musical drama in three acts (four images) by Eugen d'Albert . Rudolf Lothar wrote the libretto based on a model by Armand Silvestre and Eugen Morand. The first performance of the opera was on November 6, 1909 at the Stadttheater Hamburg .

action

First elevator

The young princes Ram Singh, Cavaradjah and Scindya, sons of the country's first families, court the beautiful courtesan Izeÿl, but are rejected by her. To prove his love, Scindya removes the sanctuary, a golden tripod with incense, from the temple and places it in front of Izeÿl's house. Izeÿl puts him off for the evening. Then she and her slaves would like to bring the tripod back, but at this moment they are seen by the people and the Brahmins, made responsible for the theft and accused of blasphemy. The new Princess Sarvillaka, Scindya's mother, saves her from death on the grounds that God does not care about prostitutes. Izeÿl, wounded in her honor, swears vengeance. - The prince elected king is to be crowned in the temple after years of secluded education. A yogi appears and tells the unsuspecting about the suffering of the world. Shaken, the prince decides to renounce his rule and go through the world as a penitent. Izeÿl: If he knew what love is, he wouldn't go.

second elevator

The prince, teaching students outside civilization, resists the temptation of two princesses to follow them back to town. In the night Izeÿl appears, only covered with a cloak to seduce him. But she too, the prostitute, is seized by the prince's words and converted to a life full of renunciation: Take my soul, so that it may be consumed in your flame .

third elevator

Scindya and his servants prepare everything in Izeÿl's house for their return and for a night of love. But Izeÿl rejects Scindya; She only accepts his precious gifts of love, jewels, pearls, diamonds, brocades and precious silk in order to give them directly to the poor: What you give me should mean happiness to others . Scindya, furious, threatens to kill the prince if Izeÿl does not hear him. When he tries to hug and kiss her, she stabs him. When she hears the princess coming, she hides his body under a table. The princess enters and gradually realizes what has happened: Her own son was murdered by Izeÿl. She orders cruel tortures and a slow death to Izeÿl. - After the torture, Izeÿl is said to be buried alive. The prince redeems the dying woman with the confession of his love. The Huris appear in the clouds to bring Izeÿl to them. The prince sinks weeping on the closed burial mound.

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