Der Vogelhändler

• Electress Marie: Soprano
• Adelaide, maid of honor: comic old
• Baron Weps, forest and wildlife champion: Baritone
• Count Stanislaus, his nephew: Tenor
• Of scratching nail Chamberlain: actor
• Süffle; Professor ( comedian ): Tenor
• Worms, professor ( comedian ): Bass
• Adam, the Bird Seller: Tenor
• Christel, Postbotin: soubrette
• Schneck, Dorfschulze: Baritone
• Emmerence, his daughter, actress
• Mrs. Fog, hostess: actress
• Jette, Waitress: actress
• Wild thyme, Hoflakai: actor

The bird dealer is an operetta in three acts by Carl Zeller with a libretto by Moritz West ( Moritz Nitzelberger ) and Ludwig hero. This is based on the vaudeville Ce que les roses deviennent ( The Goose Girl ) by Victor Varin and Edmond de Biéville.

General Notes

The Bird Seller premiered on January 10, 1891 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. The famous Viennese singer and actor Alexander Girardi played the lead role. Rudolf del Zopp was seen as Stanislaus. The scale as a comedy play is set in the Palatinate in the early 19th century. It's about a pair of lovers, the Vogelhändler Adam and Christel, the letter carrier of the village.

Among the 17 numbers of the score, which offered all a melodious, pleasing and enticing music, there were some who soon went around the world, including Grüass enk God, one and all, I 'm Christel von der Post, One gives up roses in Tyrol and Cheerful Palatinate, never get old. From the song Adams As my Ahn'l twenty years ( with the refrain No amal, amal no singing only sing, nightingale! ) Were sold 200 000 units within a few months. The Bird Seller is one of the half dozen operettas that have been claiming for the premiere continuously in the repertoire of German-language theaters.

The Bird Seller has been filmed several times, for example, 1953 ( with Gerhard Ried man, Ilse Werner, Wolf Albach -Retty, Eva Probst ) and 1962 ( with Cornelia Froboess, Peter Weck, Maria Sebaldt, Rudolf Platte ).

Action

Act 1

The elector has announced the boar hunt in his hunting ground. Wildmeister Baron Weps explains the troubled farmer his master will waive a fee ignore both their permanent Wilddiebereien as well as on the position of honor Mermaid. But Weps who needs the money, especially for himself and his debt-ridden nephew, Count Stanislaus ( who does not want to get married to his annoyance with the elderly, but rich maid of honor Adelaide ), learns shortly thereafter that his Royal Highness will avoid the Rhine Palatinate today. Without further ado Stanislaus decides to play the elector to save the money.

Meanwhile, the Vogelhändler Adam has arrived from his native Tyrol with his colleagues. He is engaged to the letter carrier Christel and looks forward to a reunion with her. He can not marry his bride, because he has no lucrative position. Therefore, Christel will ask the electors to give him a job as a menagerie director, and goes to the Electoral hunting lodge. There she meets Stanislaus, who plays the electors and granted her everything. Adam is furious when he learns that his Christel the elector was, because he suspected an affair between the two.

Meanwhile, also disguised as a peasant girl who arrived the Electress to hinterherzuspionieren her infamous womanizer as a husband. Adam, who keeps them for a simple girl who makes her Highness the yard. When she gives him a bouquet of roses for comfort, this is very fond of her. Adam repudiates his unsuspecting Christel to be rather the supposed peasant girl turn to Marie.

Act 2

Although he is intentionally stupid answers prior to the examination committee, Adam was appointed electoral menagerie director. When he later met the Electress, he keeps them still for the simple girl until he opens a random eyes over his mistake. Meanwhile, her highness has found out that her husband is not present, and exposed with the help of Christel Stanislaus as the culprit. Adam may dictate the punishment cassation as an officer or marriage with Christel. To the horror of Adelaide, which already felt as his bride, selects the cowardly Stanislaus marriage.

Act 3

It prepares the wedding. But Christel wants nothing to do with a marriage Stanislaus. She mourns for her Adam. This is destroyed by the loss of his bride on the ground; he wants to continue to forget his love for Christel in the home. But everything can be found again. First Weps makes the maid of honor Adelaide success with a marriage proposal, and finally also Christel and Adam reconcile. Both pull together to Tyrol.

Songs and Arias

• Adam: " Grüass enk God, one and all " (text by Carl Lorens ) and " As my Ahnl twenty years "
• Christel: "I am the Christel von der Post"
• Christel and Stanislaus, "Look at me only right in the face"
• Electress: " Cheerful Palatinate, God 's sustaining " and "When the cherry tree bloomed "
• Electress and Adam: " Gives Roses from Tirol"
• Süffle and worms: "I am the vice-dean "
• Christel, Adam and Stanislaus: " never fights with Frau'n "