Heavyweight or The Nation's Honor
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Title: | Heavyweight or The Nation's Honor |
Shape: | Burlesque operetta in one act |
Original language: | German |
Music: | Ernst Krenek |
Libretto : | Ernst Krenek |
Premiere: | May 6, 1928 |
Place of premiere: | State Theater Wiesbaden |
Playing time: | approx. 25 minutes |
Place and time of the action: | Training room in the house of the master boxer |
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Heavyweight or Die Ehre der Nation is a “burlesque operetta” in one act with text and music by Ernst Krenek , whose Op. 55. Together with Krenek's short operas The Secret Kingdom and The Dictator, it is part of a triptych . All three operas were premiered on May 6, 1928 as part of the Wiesbaden International May Festival in the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden .
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwind : two flutes , two oboes , two clarinets , two bassoons
- Brass : two trumpets , two trombones
- Timpani , percussion : big drum , small drum , wooden drum, stirrer drum, castanets , tambourine , cymbals , ratchet , flexaton , xylophone , glockenspiel
- piano
- Strings
Web links
- Action from heavyweight or Die Ehre der Nation at Opera-Guide landing page due to URL change currently unavailable
- Work information and view score in the Universal Edition
Individual evidence
- ↑ May 6, 1928: "Heavyweight or The Honor of the Nation". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..
- ↑ Winfried Kirsch: Heavyweight or The Honor of the Nation. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 3: Works. Henze - Massine. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-492-02413-0 , pp. 332–333.