To golden love

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Work data
Title: To golden love
Shape: Operetta in four pictures
Original language: German
Music: Ralph Benatzky
Libretto : Willi Wolff and Martin Zickel
Premiere: October 16, 1931
Place of premiere: Berlin
Playing time: approx ... hours
Place and time of the action: Hamburg, Berlin around 1931
people
  • Kommerzienrat Emil Schramm ( baritone )
  • Edith, his daughter (Soubrette)
  • Peter Fabricius, composer ( tenor )
  • Hannes Birk, librettist ( tenor )
  • Rubin, house agent ( baritone )
  • Mother mews ( old )
  • Lisa, singer from "Golden Love" (Soubrette)
  • Sebastian Kiesewetter, master of the "Gold'nen Liebe" ( baritone )
  • Mutzi-Putzi, Diseuse from "Golden Love" (Soubrette)
  • Hein, waiter from the "Golden Love" (actor)
  • An English woman (actor)
  • A photographer (actor)
  • The theater director (actor)
  • The stage manager Krause (actor)
  • The actress of the "Countess"
  • The auxiliary prophet Hofer
  • Jean, servant at Schramm

The 8 beautiful people, sailors, Englishmen and women, choir, ladies and gentlemen of the company

Zur golden'nen Liebe is an operetta in four pictures with music by Ralph Benatzky based on a libretto by Willi Wolff and Martin Zickel . It premiered on October 16, 1931 at the Komische Oper in Berlin . The casting of the roles according to certain voices - as indicated in the adjacent info box - is not mandatory; they can also be cast with singing actors.

orchestra

A piano, three clarinets (saxophones), two trumpets, a trombone, a banjo (guitar), drums and three violins, a double bass (sousaphone).

action

place and time

The first and fourth pictures take place in Hamburg in "Gold'nen Liebe". The second picture on the stage of a Berlin theater. The third picture in the apartment of the Kommerzienrat Schramm on Kurfürstendamm. Time: Present (1931).

content

The piece is about the performance of the fictional operetta "Geigerkönig und Waschermädel" and parodies the typical, traditional operetta and the commercial operetta business around 1930.