Marietta (Straus)

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Work data
Title: Marietta
Original title: Mariette
Original language: French
Music: Oscar Straus
Libretto : Sacha Guitry ; German adaptation: Alfred Grünwald
Place and time of the action: Paris, 1848–1851 and 1828
people
  • Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The Duke of Morny
  • Count de Persigny
  • King Jerôme of Westphalia
  • Marietta Fleury
  • Dutillet, adjutant
  • Clementine, Plumeaux, Miss Lanval, Amadé, René (members of the theater in Amiens)
  • Mme. Fagonard, friend and confidante of Marietta
  • Jacques Offenbach, Alexander Dumas the Younger, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, Henry Meilhac, Victorien Sardou (guests of the Marietta)
  • Honoré, a servant
  • Armand Dupont, journalist
  • Coletta
  • Pierre, an old servant
  • Archibald, waiter
  • Hortense, Chlotilde (dancers)
  • A stage manager
  • A bandmaster
  • A prompter
  • Actors, dancers, guests, men and women, officers, etc.

Marietta is a French comedy with music in five pictures by Sacha Guitry . The German adaptation and lyrics are by Alfred Grünwald , the music is by Oscar Straus .

action

The comedy is set in Paris; the first four pictures from 1848 to 1851, the last picture takes place in 1928.

First picture

Revenge of Alberto (Opera in Amiens)

  • No. 1. Introduction; Yanetta, Plumeaux, choir
  • No. 2. Duet; Prince Alberto, Yanetta
  • No. 3. Entree; Marietta
  • No. 4. Duet; Yanetta, Giovanni
  • No. 5. Duel scene
  • No. 6. Finale; Yanetta, Prince Cabajal, Alberto, Giovanni

Second picture

  • No. 7. Ballet scene with women's choir
  • No. 8. Duet; Clementine, Amadé
  • No. 9. Letter scene
  • No. 10. Duet; Marietta, prince
  • No. 11. Musical scene; Marietta, prince, choir
  • No. 12. Duet - Finale; Marietta, prince

Third picture

  • No. 13. Song; prince
  • No. 14. Duet - Final; Marietta, prince

Fourth picture

  • No. 15. Romance; Marietta
  • No. 16. Duet; Marietta, prince
  • No. 17. Finale

Fifth picture

  • No. 18. Dance
  • No. 19. Song; Dupont
  • No. 20. Song of Marietta; Marietta
  • No. 21. Finaletto; Marietta, Coletta, Dupont

literature

  • W. Karczag: “Marietta” - comedy with music in five pictures by Sacha Guitry. German arrangement and lyrics by Alfred Grünwald. Music by Oscar Straus. Edition Bristol Musik- und Bühnenverlag AG, Vienna, 1929.