Linen dealer saga
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| Title: | Linen dealer saga |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Tristan Schulze |
| Libretto : | Johannes Huber |
| Premiere: | 2017 |
| Place of premiere: | Putzleinsdorf |
| Playing time: | about 3 hours |
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The linen dealer saga is a music theater piece that is roughly a hybrid between folk play and opera with elements from operetta and musical , based on the real conditions of Putzleinsdorf around 1874, the time of Norbert Hanrieder . The libretto comes from Johannes Huber, music school teacher from Putzleinsdorf, the music from the German composer Tristan Schulze . On July 22, 2017, the play celebrated its world premiere at the original location, in the village of Putzleinsdorf in the upper Mühlviertel in Upper Austria . Thomas Eckerstorfer was the musical director, Norbert Huber directed, choreography: Anna Magdalena Auzinger, set design: Clemens Huber. Contributors were u. a. Hans Falkinger, Christine Schaubmayr, Paul Linecker, Johanna Rachinger , Clemens Hellsberg u. v. a .; Orchestra: Nordwald Chamber Orchestra , Choir: Putzleinsdorfer Kirchenchor and other choir singers, Johanna Falkinger (conductor).
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Two best friends in the youthful exuberance of their first love. Nothing could tarnish their joy were it not for their fathers, who stand in the way of their daughters' happiness.
The news of the imminent change of the parish vicar brings unrest into the bourgeois everyday life. The schoolmaster Anton Wögerbauer wants to take this event as an opportunity to retire and finally to shake hands with his daughter Hedwig to his prospective successor, Josef Hofer. The rich linen dealer and liberal mayor Ignaz Schraml, in turn, wants to use this opportunity to push back the increasing influence of the church in public life. In order to be more present on the social stage, he organizes a trotting race.
But events do not take their intended course. The farmer's son Adam unexpectedly wins the race and on this occasion makes his relationship with Schraml's daughter Karoline public. Schraml has completely different plans for his daughter. Josef and Hedwig's marriage plans are also threatened with an abrupt end. In the thicket of personal sensitivities and confused feelings, influenced by family circumstances and the Vienna stock market crash, fate breaks an unexpected path.
Web links
- Official homepage of the "linen dealer saga"
- Review OÖN from July 24, 2017
- ORF report
- Market town of Putzleinsdorf, linen dealer saga