Joke, cunning and revenge
| Work data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Joke, cunning and revenge |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Max break |
| Libretto : | Ludwig Bischoff |
| Literary source: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Premiere: | January 14, 1858 |
| Place of premiere: | Cologne |
| Playing time: | about 70 minutes |
| Place and time of the action: | France , 17th century |
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Scherz, List und Rache op. 1 is a comic opera in one act by Max Bruch . It was premiered on January 14, 1858 in Cologne . The overture is composed for four-handed piano. The rest of the opera is accompanied by a two-handed piano setting.
action
Scapin and Scapine, robbed of an inheritance by a tricky, greedy doctor, devise a plan to get the money back. Scapine pretends to be suffering from melancholy and madness and asks the doctor for help, who then sets out to brew a healing elixir. While the old quack prepares his medicine, his servant - none other than Scapin disguised as a cripple - sounds a fire alarm. Scapine quickly exchanges the mixture for arsenic and when the doctor returns, pretends to die of poisoning. The doctor, not a little confused, gives Scapin 50 ducats to remove the corpse. To top it all off, Scapine turns up at the doctor's one night as a resurrected woman and extorts another 50 ducats from him.
See also
- ETA Hoffmann : Joke, Cunning and Vengeance (Singspiel, Libretto) (1801)
- Philipp Christoph Kayser : Joke, Cunning and Vengeance (Singspiel, 4 acts 1787)
- Heinrich Köselitz : Jokes, Cunning and Vengeance (Komische Oper 1880–1888)
- Friedrich Leinert : Scherz, Cunning and Revenge - comic opera in two acts after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for coloratura soprano, tenor and bass baritone - chamber orchestra (1952)
- Fritz Reuter : Joke, Cunning and Vengeance (Singspiel 2 acts 1948/49)
- Thomas Rösner : Overture to “Scherz, Cunning and Revenge” (Guild Music 7338), Biel Symphony Orchestra
- Hans Vogt : Music for the Singspiel "Scherz, List und Rache", for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano (1934)
- Egon Wellesz : Joke, List and Vengeance, op. 41 (1927)
- Peter von Winter : Joke, Cunning and Vengeance (Scapin and Scapine) (Singspiel 1790, Munich)
- Three person piece