Der Traumgörge
- Görge (Tenor)
- Grete (soprano )
- Hans (baritone )
- Princess (soprano )
- Gertraud (soprano )
- Marei (soprano )
- Landlady (soprano )
- The miller
- The pastor ( bass)
- A farmer (baritone )
- Züngl (Tenor)
- Host (baritone )
- Kaspar (baritone )
- Mathes
- Compatriots, children and dream voices (chorus )
- A mezzo- soprano
The Traumgörge is a late romantic opera by the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky. The libretto was written by Leo field. Zemlinsky composed the work of 1904-1906, premiered it, however, came only almost 75 years later, on 11 October 1980 at the Nuremberg Opera.
Genesis
" The Traumgörge " was Zemlinsky's third opera and was commissioned by the Imperial Court Opera under its then director Gustav Mahler. The planned for the 1907/ 08 season premiere, it did not come because of Mahler Demissionierung however. His successor, Felix Weingartner no longer felt bound to Mahler's commitments and emphasized the already finished work tried out his plans. Zemlinsky, even though he was a respected conductor, did not patronize his own work and bring yourself to the performance.
Performance history
As part of the resurgent interest in Zemlinsky's work in the 1970s, the manuscript was discovered in the archives of the Vienna State Opera and finally concluded on October 11, 1980 at the Nuremberg Opera House with Karl -Heinz Thiemann in the lead role for the premiere.
In 1988 a CD recording of the complete opera with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Gerd Albrecht.
2007 The Traumgörge was performed by the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Action
In " Traumgörgen " there are a number of characteristic of the fin de siècle motifs, especially the contradiction between fiction and reality and retreat into the dream world.
Act 1
Main character is the only sunken in his books pastor's son Görge. He has inherited the mill from the late Müller, who the current Müller has again allowed to flower. The young and beautiful Greta, daughter of the miller is in love with Görge and wants to know what is going on inside it. He tells her about a strange dream he had recently and his desire to make all dreams alive. Are interrupted both by the miller, the pastor and the peasants who remind them of their upcoming betrothal. Grete would actually not introverted dreamer, but a man who has both feet in life. There in the charming and stormy Hans opposite in its properties Görge on and courts immediately Grete, but rejects him. Living in his dream world Görge assumes the events around him hardly share and sleeps after the rest are gone, a. In sleep he talks to his dream princess and wakes up happy on. The waiting Engagement society brüskierend to Görge decides to leave his home behind and move into the world to follow the visions of his dreams.
Act 2
Three years later: Görge is still looking for his princess. He gets into the parlor of a village where farmers are planning a rebellion against authority and try to win Görge for their projects. This plan, however, that the farmers with their rebellion have only pillage and murder in mind and refuses. He learns the orphan Gertraud know that is decried in the village as a witch. When the villagers set fire to their house and also Gertraud want to burn himself, he takes her under his protection and flees with her back to his home.
Epilogue
Görge and Gertraud have returned to Görges village and work in the mill. The people of the village to thank them for everything they have done good. Also Hans and Grete are happy and have since married each other. Only now recognizes Görge in Gertraud those princess again, which is at that time appeared to him in a dream.
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