Mam'zelle Nitouche
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| Title: | Mam'zelle Nitouche |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | French |
| Music: | Hervé |
| Libretto : | Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud |
| Premiere: | January 26, 1883 |
| Place of premiere: | Paris |
| Place and time of the action: | A provincial town in France around 1850 |
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Mam'zelle Nitouche ( French , roughly: "Fräulein Rührmichnichtan") is one of the most famous French operettas . The work composed by Hervé with a text by Henri Meilhac has three acts and was premiered on January 26, 1883 in the Parisian Théâtre des Variétés .
Mam'zelle Nitouche , with its relaxed vocal interludes, belongs to the then modern genre of the vaudeville operetta, which opposed the operettas by Charles Lecocq , for example . It reflects an entertainment world towards the end of the 19th century, which is already characterized by the music halls and café concerts . The plot is a precisely functioning sway . Due to the anti-French nationalism at that time, the work did not become naturalized in the German-speaking area. But it is very well known in the Czech Republic.
orchestra
Two flutes, an oboe, two clarinets, a bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, a trombone, a harp, a piano, a harmonium, large percussion and strings
Sequence of images
Act I , image 1: music room in a boarding school for girls; Act II , image 2: stage corridor;
Act III , image 3: barracks courtyard; Photo 4: Music room of the girls' boarding school
action
The church organist Célestin is a music teacher at a girls' boarding school, but as "Floridor" he is also secretly a composer of operettas. He performed his work in the theater of Pontarcy , which received a lot of attention from the military stationed there. Célestin has a love affair with his leading actress Corinna, which arouses the jealousy of a dragoon major who happens to be the brother of the boarding house manager. His lieutenant Fernand also tries to see his promised bride, whom he does not yet know, for the first time in the performance. He falls in love with Denise, who, as it turns out only at the end, is his bride. By chance she even jumps in for Floridor's play for his lover Corinne. She is crazy about clever intrigues, but that's not the only reason why she is the "Mam'zelle Nitouche". Due to the entanglements in love, the performance of the operetta almost bursts, but in the end the two couples find each other.
As in the Viennese operetta, there is a third act comedian, Brigadier Loriot.
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The title role was closely linked to the actress and singer Anna Judic , who she impersonated for years. The operetta has remained in the Parisian repertoire to this day. The actor Fernandel later became famous as Célestin , who also played this role in the film adaptation of Yves Allégret (1954) alongside Pier Angeli .
The acclaimed translation by Richard Genée could not establish itself in the German-speaking area. Rescue attempts in the 20th century were made by Renato Mordo in Darmstadt in 1929 and Hans Weigel and Alexander Steinbrecher in Munich in 1955. Nevertheless, unlike Jacques Offenbach's most important works , the operetta did not become part of the German repertoire. The German film adaptation of Mamsell Nitouche by Carl Lamac with Julia Serda and Oskar Karlweis in 1931 had little effect two years before the Nazi seizure of power . Another film adaptation was made in Denmark in 1963 under the title Frøken Nitouche (German Fräulein untouched ) by Annelise Reenberg with Lone Hertz in the title role.
literature
- Josef Heinzelmann: Hervé: Mam'zelle Nitouche , in: Carl Dahlhaus, Sieghart Döhring (Hrsg.): Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater , Vol. 3 pp. 37-39, Munich: Piper 1989. ISBN 3-492-02413-0
Individual evidence
- ^ Theater and Art News (February 5, 1901). In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, February 6, 1901, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).