Heavyweight or The Nation's Honor

Opera dates
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
people
Adam Ochsenschwanz, master boxer ( bass buffo ) Evelyne, his wife ( soprano ) Gaston, dance master ( tenor ) Professor Himmelhuber ( baritone ) Anna Maria Himmelhuber, his daughter ( mezzo-soprano ) a journalist (tenor) a councilor (tenor) Ottokar, servant at Oxtail (silent role) a housemaid (extra)

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

1. ↑ May 6, 1928: "Heavyweight or The Honor of the Nation". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..
2. ↑ 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.