Love in Lerchengasse
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| Title: | Love in Lerchengasse |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Arno Vetterling |
| Libretto : | Hermann Hermecke |
| Premiere: | December 31, 1936 |
| Place of premiere: | Magdeburg |
| Place and time of the action: | Munich around 1830 |
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Love in Lerchengasse is an operetta in three acts (four pictures) by Arno Vetterling . The libretto written Hermann Hermecke . The work had its world premiere on December 31, 1936 in Magdeburg .
orchestra
Two flutes, an oboe, two clarinets, a bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, a trombone, a harp, a celesta, an accordion, drums and strings
Sequence of images
Act I: Image 1: Library, Act II: Image 2: Attic, Image 3: In Lerchengasse, Act III: Image 4: Biedermeier living room
action
The poet Ludwig Heller is happy to be with the Privy Councilor a. D. Franz Xaver Zibelius to have found a job as a librarian and tutor for his daughter Charlotte; because he cannot yet make a living from his writing. The two young people get closer during the lessons. The initial crush eventually turns into love. Ludwig therefore asked his employer for his daughter's hand. But he gets so angry that he not only brusquely rejects his librarian's recruitment, but also terminates him without notice.
To his surprise, Ludwig was considered an inheritance in a will. The only annoying thing about it is the clause that he must immediately make a marriage promise. Charlotte is able to clear up Ludwig's gloomy thoughts: Her father is a passionate cactus grower. One of the crops he valued so much had inexplicably withered for some time. Should this cactus bloom again, then it will no longer stand in the way of her engagement to Heller. This miracle happened today.
However, the joy only lasts for a short time. Ludwig's friend, the painter Wendolin Reitmayr, throws a boot out of the window for fun, and it hurts the head of the Privy Councilor and also destroys the cactus that has just blossomed again. Now, for better or worse, Ludwig has to wait to get engaged until his lover will come of age in a few months.
Wendolin prepares a plan for how his friend's inheritance can still be saved: the unfortunate man is supposed to become engaged to Euphrosine Schnakenbrück, his landlady, on the pretext. Her husband Tobias has been missing on a sea voyage for many years and was pronounced dead. Euphrosine is ready to play right away, but requires that the engagement must follow the marriage later.
Wendolin now disguises himself as a sailor and goes to see Euphrosine. He pretends to be the husband believed dead. But instead of being happy, Euphrosine is shocked. Under these circumstances, of course, she cannot marry her tenant; otherwise she would be accused of being a bigamist.
The confusion grows even bigger when another seaman appears and also claims to be the lost Tobias. Which of the two is the real one? - Wendolin has no choice but to admit his dizziness. And with regard to Ludwig's rich inheritance, Charlotte's father can also be wrested in consent to her engagement to Ludwig.
literature
- Hellmuth Steger / Karl Howe: Operettenführer , Fischer Bücherei Frankfurt am Main, Paperback No. 225 (1958)