Rosenstock and Edelweiss

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Work data
Title: Rosenstock and Edelweiss
Original title: Rosenstock and Edelweiss
Shape: operetta
Original language: German
Music: Franz Lehár
Libretto : Julius Bauer
Premiere: December 1, 1912
Place of premiere: Cabaret Hell in the Theater an der Wien , Vienna
Place and time of the action: around 1912
people
  • Eva Edelweiß, dairymaid
  • Isidor Rosenstock, dealer

Rosenstock und Edelweiss is a one-act operetta by the composer Franz Lehár and the librettist Julius Bauer . The first performance took place on December 1, 1912 in the cabaret Hölle in the basement of the Theater an der Wien . Sometimes the work is also referred to as a Singspiel .

reception

Only two people appear in the work. The dairymaid Eva Edelweiß and the Jewish trader Isidor Rosenstock are both portrayed as funny characters. The play is a parody of society around 1912. The one-act operetta was the third 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 went here as a second plant Mitislaw of modernity , a parody of the Danilo figure from the Merry Widow on the stage. In 1912 the operetta Rosenstock und 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

Many music numbers did not stick out of the piece. Occasionally the overture is played. This overture can be heard as a bonus track on the CD recording of the operetta Der Sterngucker , published by the CPO label in 2004 . Then there is a couplet called Who is in every play today and finally there is the Edelweiss Waltz .

Web links

literature

  • Norbert Linke : Franz Lehár . Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2001, pp. 64, 149

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: [1] Entry on Google Books.