Moscow, Cheryomushki

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Work data
Title: Moscow, Cheryomushki
Shape: Revue operetta
Original language: Russian
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Libretto : Wladimir Mass and Michail Tscherwinski
Premiere: January 24, 1959
Place of premiere: Moscow, operetta theater
Playing time: approx. 140 minutes
Place and time of the action: Moscow around 1956
people
  • Alexander ('Sascha') Petrovich Bubenzow, a happy Muscovite ( baritone )
  • Masha, his wife ( mezzo-soprano )
  • Semjon Semjonowitsch Baburow, an elderly Muscovite ( bass )
  • Lidotschka, his daughter ( soprano )
  • Boris ('Borja') Korezki, a man without a permanent home (baritone)
  • Sergei ('Serjoscha') Gluschkow, a driver ( tenor )
  • Ljusja, a construction worker (soprano)
  • Fyodor ('Fedja') Michailowitsch Drebednjow, head of administration
  • Wawa, his wife
  • Afanassi Ivanovich Barabashkin, a manager (bass)
  • Kurochkin
  • Kurochkina, his wife
  • Milkin
  • Milkina, his wife
  • Husband, wife, neighbor, other neighbor, taxi driver, man with hat, nervous lady, first construction worker, second construction worker, choir members (first woman, first girl, first neighbor, second neighbor, first resident), choir (visitors, young women, girls , Residents, new tenants, construction workers)

Moscow, Tscherjomuschki ( Russian Москва, Черемушки , Moskwa, Tscheremuschki , scientific transliteration: Moskva, Čeremuški ) is a musical comedy ( operetta ) in three acts and five pictures by Dmitri Shostakovich ( Opus 105) based on a libretto by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail. It was composed in the autumn of 1957 (preparations) and from September to November 1958 in Moscow (partly in a hospital) and in Bolshevo (near Moscow). The premiere took place on January 24, 1959 in the Moscow Operetta Theater under the direction of the conductor Grigory Stolyarov. Tscherjomuschki (translated as bird cherry ) is a satellite housing estate developed in the southwest of Moscow in the Khrushchev era .

construction

Overture-prologue and 39 numbers. Duration approx. 140 minutes.

 1. Alexander and choir of visitors
 2nd duet : Mascha and Alexander
 3. Mime - Allegretto
 4th aria : Boris - 'I'm waiting ...'
 5th Serenade : Boris
 6. Lidotschka's song
 7. A trip through Moscow
  • Dialogue interlude.
 8th duet: Wawa and Drebednjow
 9. End of the journey through Moscow
- Enter the address of the second picture 
10. Meeting of tenants
11. Sergeis Lied (driver of Marina Roschtscha)
12. Baburov's song about Tjolji Alley
13. Song about Cheryomushki
14th scene: Barabashkin and tenant
15. Boris' song
16. Song: Drebednjow, Barabaschkin and tenants
17. Finale of Act I - Song about Cheryomushki
  • Act II
  • Musical interlude: 'Here are the keys!' - Allegretto
18. Couplets : Barabaschkin - 'Can't you be patient?'
- third picture  air landing
19th duet: Lidotschka and Boris 'Holde Dame'
20th duet: Lyusja and Sergei 'love is a star'
21. Couplets on relationships: Barabashkin and Drebednjow
22nd duet - reminiscence : Lidotschka and Boris
23rd scene - dialogue - interlude
24. Song: Lyusja and construction workers
- fourth picture  A terrible knock on the door
25th duet: Mascha and Alexander - 'doorbell'
26. Polka with kisses - Allegretto
27. Song about Cheryomushki
  • Dialogue interlude - 'In the Clouds'
28. Ballet - Andantino
29. Apotheosis - Presto
30. Finale of Act II
  • Act III
31. Entracte - Allegretto
32nd scene
- fifth picture  The magic clock
33. Lidotschka's song - 'What's that to do with me?'
34. Waltz of flowers
35. Barabashkin's little song
36th duet: Lidotschka and Boris
37. Sergei's little song
Scene 38: Barabashkin
39th final

occupation

19 vocal parts and choir.

3 flutes (incl. Piccolo), 3 oboes, 3 clarinets (A and B), 2 bassoons; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba; Timpani, triangle, castanets , tambourine , snare drum , cymbal , bass drum , gong ; Harp; Strings.

Musical material

Moscow, Tscherjomuschki resembles some early works by Shostakovich with its witty, satirical-parodistic style, such as the film music Das neue Babylon Op. 18 and his ballets, but also has the romantic charm of the suite for vaudeville orchestra from around 1955 . As in the New Babylon (or in his 11th Symphony, Op. 103), Shostakovich uses extensive musical quotations. In the New Babylon there are witty arrangements of the Marseillaise and operetta hits by Jacques Offenbach . In his operetta Shostakovich processed popular Russian classics (by Glinka , Borodin , Tchaikovsky ), then current Estrada hits such as For example, the Moscow Nights (in No. 19) , which is also very popular in the West, and quotations from own works, such as the ballets Der Bolzen, Op. 27 and The Bright Bach Op. 39 and from his film music.

The title melody Tscherjomuschki (e.g. in the prologue and in numbers 13, 17, 39) is based on the song There were happy days ( There used to be Merry Days ) from Shostakovich's film music Golden Mountains Op. 30. The most famous song he has ever written, Towards the cool morning from the music for the film Der Gegenplan Op. 33, he processes into Lidotschka's song in the operetta (Nos. 6, 22). This catchy tune , composed in 1932, has experienced enormous circulation in the Soviet Union and far beyond, so that every visitor to the operetta at the end of the 1950s should have recognized it immediately.

Translations

English translation by David Pountney . German translations by Ulrike Patow and, based on David Pountney's translation into English, by Lothar Nickel.

Edits

  • Film adaptation , Opus 105a. Director: Gerbert Rappaport, Lenfilm 1962, 92 minutes (DVD 81 minutes).
  • Cheryomushki 1958 . A reduced orchestral version (1993-1994) by Gerard McBurney with the English translation by David Pountney. It was the basis for the British premiere of the operetta in 1994. Instrumentation: 1 flute / piccolo, 1 clarinet (B-flat / E-flat), 2 saxophones (soprano / alto and tenor / baritone); 2 trumpets, 1 trombone; 1 piano; 1 guitar / banjo / ukulele; Percussion (1 player: small / tenor / bass drum, 2 tambourines, rototom, 2 wooden blocks, 3 bongos, 2 tom-toms, 2 triangles, 3 suspended cymbals, car horn, small glockenspiel, vibraphone, metal twang, 5 electric bells, wind machine , 2 thundersheets); 2 violins; 1 cello, 1 double bass.
  • Suite arranged by Andrew Cornall (1995), consists of 4 numbers (without vocals) and a modified instrumentation (e.g. with tenor saxophone), duration approx. 20 minutes.
  1. A ride through Moscow - No. 7
  2. Waltz - Nos. 2 and 3
  3. Dances (Polka-Gallop) - Nos. 26 and 19
  4. Ballet - No. 28
  • Moscow Cheryomushki . A reduced orchestral version by Ralf Böhme with the German translation by Ulrike Patow, premiered in 2012 at the Berlin State Opera . Instrumentation: 1 flute, 1 clarinet (B / A), 1 tenor saxophone; 1 trumpet, 2 horns, 1 trombone, 1 tuba; 1 drum set, triangle, glockenspiel; 1 violin, 1 double bass.

Total recordings

First and so far only complete recording of the operetta: Gennadi Roschdestwenski , Symphonic Orchestra of the Russian State, Residence Orchestra The Hague , 1997, Chandos, CHAN 9591 (2). Contains a 264-page booklet with background, synopsis and complete libretto in German, English, French and Russian.

literature

  • Derek C. Hulme: Dmitri Shostakovich Catalog. (4th edition: The first hundred years and beyond.) With a foreword by Irina Schostakowitsch. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7264-6

Web links

  • Trailer (youtube) of the Semperoper Dresden 2004. (McBurney's reduced orchestral version, Patow's German translation.)
  • Information about the work from the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes.
  • Information on content and people from the music publisher Sikorski.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hulme, pages 413 ff.
  2. ↑ Hulme, pages 413 ff.
  3. ^ Hulme, p. 414
  4. ↑ Political music theater à la Bregenz: Schostakowitsch, Gershwin and David Sawer , Peter P. Pachl , NMZ August 19, 2009
  5. ↑ Collective skipping without a rope: Shostakovich's “Moscow Tscherjomuschki” as a migration project at the Berlin State Opera , Peter P. Pachl, NMZ May 3, 2012