To the Grand Admiral
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| Title: | To the Grand Admiral |
| Shape: | Comic opera in three acts |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Albert Lortzing |
| Libretto : | Albert Lortzing |
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Alexandre Duval : La Jeunesse de Henri V. |
| Premiere: | December 13, 1847 |
| Place of premiere: | Municipal Court Theater Leipzig |
| Place and time of the action: | London 1686 |
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Zum Großadmiral is a comic opera in three acts (LoWV 74) by Albert Lortzing from 1847.
action
first act
The young heir to the throne, Prince Heinrich, bore court life and marriage. With his friend the Earl Rochester, he seeks diversion and adventure in the hunt and in the inns. He neglects his government business. At his own birthday party at court, the prince apologizes: he still has to "go to the Grand Admiral" and therefore leave the celebration. However, the "Grand Admiral" is not a person, but a harbor pub. Princess Catharina, Heinrich's wife, knows all of these things. She wants to dissuade her husband from his wild life, if necessary by drastic means. To this end, she blackmailed the Earl of Rochester to help her.
Second act
The pub "Zum Großadmiral" is fun. The sailors drink and the innkeeper himself sings them buccaneer's songs. The Prince and Count are also enjoying themselves while two of Rochester's men steal the Prince's wallet. The court page Eduard is also present because he loves the niece of the innkeeper. When the prince woos the pretty niece, there are entanglements. It comes to a scandal when the bill is to be paid. The Earl of Rochester has suddenly disappeared and the Prince realizes the loss of his purse. Instead, he offers his ring as a deposit. The ring is so valuable, however, that it cannot possibly belong to an alleged sailor. The prince is arrested as a thief.
Third act
The next morning everyone is back in the castle. Earl Rochester staged an incident in which the prince was released. If Heinrich doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of the whole world, he must forgive everyone so that the previous night will be forgotten. So he forgives Rochester and his wife Catharina and the landlord's niece is allowed to marry the page. When the innkeeper brings the royal ring into the castle, the only thing he can do at the sight of the prince is to realize that most thieves look very similar in the dark of night.
Work history
The libretto for the opera was written by the composer himself. Alexandre Duval's La Jeunesse de Henri V in August Wilhelm Iffland's German translation of Heinrich's fifth youth served as a template . The first performance of the opera Zum Großadmiral took place on December 13, 1847 under the direction of Lortzing in the City Court Theater in Leipzig. Carl Theodor Widemann sang the role of Crown Prince Heinrich. The piece was initially received with applause, but disappeared from the repertoire after a few years. Only after almost 170 years was the opera in the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz performed again in the reconstructed original form. The production was done by Ingolf Huhn , the stage by Tilo Staudte, the costumes by Brigitte Golbs and the choreography by Sigrun Kressmann.
Web links
- To the Grand Admiral : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto. Digitization of the Munich digitization center
Individual evidence
- ↑ role indications according to the libretto; Voices according to Heinz Wagner: The great manual of the opera. 4th edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937872-38-4 , p. 719 f.
- ↑ December 13, 1847: "To the Grand Admiral". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia .
- ↑ Classical: Albert Lortzing (1801-1851): Zum Großadmiral. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
- ^ "To the Grand Admiral" - comic opera by Albert Lortzing | Albert Lortzing Society. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
- ↑ To the Grand Admiral - Winterstein Theater Annaberg-Buchholz. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Martin Freitag: Review of "Zum Großadmiral". In: The opera friend . Retrieved June 6, 2020 .