Crew on board

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Work data
Title: Crew on board
Shape: operetta
Original language: German
Music: Ivan Zajc
Libretto : JL Harisch
Premiere: 1865
Place of premiere: Berlin
Place and time of the action: English seaport
people
  • Piffard, guard of a warehouse
  • Bibiana, his wife
  • Spermacete, doctor
  • Max, sailor
  • Robert, sailor
  • Otto, sailor
  • Profond, schoolmaster
  • Emma, ​​his daughter
  • Sailors, neighbors

Crew on Board is an operetta in one act by the composer Ivan Zajc ; JL Harisch was responsible for the libretto . The first performance of this play took place in Berlin in 1865 .

action

View of the harbor and the warehouse, which is guarded by Piffard.

The HMS Gladiator is wrecked in the harbor. During the repair work, the crew is given shore leave, but is placed under Piffard's supervision. In order to reward him for this, he should have the honor of proposing the most capable of all sailors as the new helmsman. The team found out about this by chance and Otto and Norbert tried to give their mutual friend and colleague Max the helmsman's license.

Meanwhile, Max has fallen in love with Emma, ​​the daughter of the schoolmaster Profond. However, he refuses his daughter a marriage to a simple sailor. His friends want to help here too and deliberately put Piffard in a precarious situation for him. His jealous wife Bibiana does not know what is going on and now believes that her husband is having an affair with Emma. The only way out - for Piffard - is now Max.

He declares that he would like to play Emma's bridegroom, but only for the sake of credibility you need the official consent of Emma's father. But in order to get this in turn, Max needs a helmsman's license. Piffard immediately rushes to the captain of the HMS Gladiator and insists on Max as the new helmsman. Since the captain agrees, Piffard can present the certificate to Max and be the first to congratulate him on it. Now the schoolmaster only has to agree to his daughter's wedding to Max the helmsman and the jealous Bibiana is calmed down too.

literature

  • Leo Melitz: Guide through the operettas . Globus-Verlag, Berlin 1917, pp. 137-138.
  • Ivan Zajc: crew on board. Comic opera in one act (with free use of the "English boatman songs" by JL Harisch) . Crantz, Leipzig 1875.