Mitislav of modernity
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Title: | Mitislav of modernity |
Original title: | Mitislav of modernity |
Shape: | operetta |
Original language: | German |
Music: | Franz Lehár |
Libretto : | Fritz Grünbaum and Robert Bodanzky |
Premiere: | January 7, 1907 |
Place of premiere: | Cabaret Hell in the Theater an der Wien , Vienna |
Place and time of the action: | A fictional state (benzinien) around 1907 |
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Mitislaw der Moderne is an operetta in one act by the composer Franz Lehár and the librettists Fritz Grünbaum and Robert Bodanzky . The first performance took place on January 7, 1907 in the cabaret Hölle in the basement of the Theater an der Wien .
Remarks
Prince Mitislaw lives the life of a connoisseur in his homeland, Gasoline. Traditions, morals and customs are ignored. The plot revolves around this scenario, which essentially parodies the figure of Danilo from The Merry Widow . Of course, the grisettes already known from the Merry Widow should not be missing. The work also criticizes the (Viennese) society at the time the work was created.
The one-act operetta was the second of four short stage works by Lehár that premiered in the basement of the Theater an der Wien , the so-called cabaret hell . The series of works listed there began in 1906 with the children's operetta Peter and Paul Reisen im Schlaraffenland . In 1907, the work discussed here, Mitislaw der Moderne, followed . In 1912 the operetta Rosenstock and Edelweiss followed . This series ended with the Singspiel Spring in 1922. Of these four short operettas, the last one had the greatest success.
Music numbers
The operetta contains the following musical numbers:
- overture
- who's coming? who's coming?
- Heil, Heil, Heil, your Excellency
- What a beautiful moment
- I was told when I was little
- who's coming? who's coming?
- I am a princess
- How lovely of her beautiful women
- Such a little keyhole
- The woman wants to succeed with men
- Be modern
- final
Sound carrier
In 1955 the operetta Mitislaw der Moderne was recorded on record. The Vienna Broadcasting Orchestra played under the direction of Max Schönherr . Alice Gross-Jiresch, Tonie Niessner, Harry Fuss, Maria Zellina, Marianne Lozal and Elisabeth Hölzl sang the leading roles. This recording was released on CD in 2012 on the Cantus Line (Da Music) label . It can be heard on the first of the 2 CDs of this production. The second CD contains the operetta Der Göttergatte .
Web links
- Mitislaw der Moderne at books.google.de
- Mitislaw der Moderne in The Guide to Musical Theater
- Mitislaw der Mordern in The Guide to Light Opera & Operetta
- Description of the work at Theater Reutlingen
- Mitislaw der Moderne in theater texts
- Mitislaw der Moderne at Klassika
literature
- Norbert Linke : Franz Lehár . Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2001, pp. 49, 148