Uncle president
| Opera dates | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Uncle president |
| Shape: | Opera in a prelude, an act and an epilogue |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Friedrich Cerha |
| Libretto : | Peter Wolf |
| Literary source: | Ferenc Molnár : One, two, three |
| Premiere: | 1st June 2013 |
| Place of premiere: | Prinzregententheater Munich |
| Playing time: | about 100 minutes |
Uncle President is a 100-minute comic opera by Friedrich Cerha based on a libretto by Peter Wolf, in a prelude, an act and an epilogue .
Emergence
The stage play One, Two, Three by Ferenc Molnár served as a template for the libretto . The opera was created as a co-production with the Vienna Volksoper after a composition commission from the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz . The production was supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation . The Austrian theater director and director Josef Ernst Köpplinger had been working with Cerha on this project since 2009 and took it with him from Klagenfurt to Munich after he switched to the Theater am Gärtnerplatz .
premiere
The premiere took place on June 1, 2013 in the Prinzregententheater in Munich due to renovation work on the theater on Gärtnerplatz .
Roles and actors in the world premiere
- The composer - Robert Holl
- The President - Renatus Mészár
- Melody Moneymaker - Susanne Ellen Kirchesch
- Josef Powolny, bicycle messenger - Paul Schweinester
- Miss Flink, Secretary - Elaine Ortiz Arandes
- Miss Flott, Secretary - Ann-Katrin Naidu
- Miss Flugs, secretary - Frances Lucey
- Dr. Diligence, head of the secretariat - Stefan Cerny
- Dr. Please, General Manager - Derrick Ballard
- Dr. Pillerl, company doctor - Derrick Ballard
- Deodatus Graf Schrullenhuf-Wullersdurff - Juan Carlos Falcón
- Didi Kvaca, reporter from the scandal - Ernst Dieter Suttheimer
- Twine, cutter - Ernst Dieter Suttheimer
- Monsignor Campanile - Holger Ohlmann
- Mummy Moneymaker - Snejinka Avramova
- Daddy Moneymaker - Martin Hausberg
- The five members of the supervisory board - Thomas Hohenberger , Dirk Lüdemann , Adrian Sandu , Stefan Thomas , Marcus Wandl
In October 2014 the piece was also performed at the cooperating Volksoper Vienna.
Web links
- Uncle President on the website of the Prinzregententheater ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cheers for the new Cerha opera in Munich on Focus online .de. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
- ↑ Composition commission "Uncle President" to Friedrich Cerha on EVS-Stiftung.de. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
- ↑ a b From operas and people to Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Retrieved June 11, 2013.
- ↑ Cerha's opera farce “Uncle President” on D-Radio .de. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
- ↑ Friedrich Cerha's "Uncle President" on BR-Klassik ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Uncle President in the program of the Volksoper Wien ( memento from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 19, 2016.