Woodruff (operetta)

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Work data
Title: Woodruff
Shape: operetta
Original language: German
Music: Johann Strauss (son)
Libretto : Gustav Davis
Premiere: 4th December 1895
Place of premiere: Vienna
Place and time of the action: Saxon provincial town
people
  • Christof Heffele, governor ( baritone )
  • Malvine, his wife ( old )
  • Freda, daughter of both ( soprano )
  • Tymoleon von Gerius, Chief Forestry Officer and Director of the Forest Academy (baritone)
  • Botho Wendt, young nobleman (tenor)
  • Erich, Forsteleve (tenor)
  • Pauline, singer of the Dresden Opera (Soubrette)
  • Regina, her friend
  • Erasmus Friedrich Müller, Professor of Botany (Tenorbuffo)
  • Jeanne, chambermaid to Pauline (soprano)
  • Sebastian, servant at Hefele
  • Therese, housemaid at Hefele's
  • Danner, Adlatus of Mr. Hefele (baritone)
  • Martin, Oberknecht in der Waldmühle (baritone)
  • Lorenz and Peter, mill servants
  • Dignitaries, forest officials, millers, servants, hunting parties, forest eleven, friends of Pauline

Waldmeister is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss (son) . The libretto is by Gustav Davis (1856–1951). The work had its world premiere on December 4, 1895 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

action

place and time

No information in the libretto, according to the theater ticket for the premiere: Saxon provincial town, present (i.e. at the time of creation = end of the 19th century).

Acts first to third

It's a love story that, after a few twists and turns, as usual in operettas, finds a happy ending . A woodruff punch plays a decisive role on the way to this happy ending . In the end, through the effects of alcohol, the right couples are found.

music

overture
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reception

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Compared to other operettas by Johann Strauss, the operetta Waldmeister has remained a little paler musically and has therefore not been able to build on the composer's great successes. The work was performed 88 more times after the world premiere. Today the operetta as a whole has largely disappeared from the repertoire of theaters. Individual music numbers have been preserved and are occasionally performed at concerts. This includes the woodruff overture , Klipp klapp, hurry after happiness , the woodruff said it , trust, look, who? and Love comes, love goes .

Ralph Benatzky reworked the operetta into a version in two acts in a new musical arrangement .

Musical re-use

Independent works by the composer were then created based on motifs from this operetta, which are identified in his catalog raisonné with the opus numbers 463 to 468. These are the following works:

literature

  • Gustav Davis, Johann Strauss: Woodruff. Libretto. Bote & Bock, Berlin undated [around 1895] ( digitized at the Library of Congress ).
  • Gustav Davis, Johann Strauss: Woodruff. Libretto. Goldmann, New York 1896 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Theater bill of the first performance on December 4, 1895, printed in Franz Mailer: Johann Strauss - Life and Work in Letters and Documents . Volume VIII. Schneider, Tutzing 1999, ISBN 3-7952-0965-X , p. 162. Playlist of the 6th performance on December 9, 1895 also online at the Austrian State Archives
  2. ^ Woodruff , version by Ralph Benatzky at Boosey & Hawkes