Beatrice von Dovsky

Beatrice (from) Dovsky (* July 14, 1866 in Vienna, † November 18, 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian poet, writer and actress.

To Dovskys works include poetry, short prose and fairy tales, such as " The Vienna brat ", the " The madam ," the " Twelve tales from the Ostmark " (1913) and the travel narrative " From Penzing to Beijing ", Vienna, 1901. She was buried in the cemetery Hietzing in Vienna.

1936 Dovskygasse in Vienna Hietzing was named after her.

Libretto Mona Lisa

Their most famous work is the libretto for the opera Mona Lisa, which was set to music by Max von Schillings in two acts and premiered in 1915. Some of it also has the conductor and composer Carl Arthur Richter 1946. Nature of its Opus 36 "Mona Lisa " Chosen Dramatic Overture, a work for wind band.

The libretto was created in 1913 after the re-emergence of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting Mona Lisa, which had been stolen two years earlier. The actuality and the multiple interwoven plot in the way today's psycho thrillers irritated the composer especially, and the opera was extremely popular and often played. Today, it is, however, almost forgotten.

In a frame story, a lay brother leads a married couple on their honeymoon by a palace in Florence and tells you what 1492 was going on here in a love triangle. The husband Francesco, a pearl merchant, longs for the old passion of his wife Mona Fiordalisa and his longing he projected onto the mysterious smile on the portrait of Leonardo. In order to recover his wife, he caused them often to wear pearl jewelry, but what this hate. As snows in the noise of the carnival a guest into the house and fell in love with Mona, Francesco sees his wife while smiling again, but this does not apply to him. Finally, the lovers ends in beads Tresor, where he is hiding, some time later but Francesco Mona is trapped there and also stifled.

The Visitor couple noticed during the palace guide parallels to his own life, during the lay brother in the foreign woman who can see a rebirth of Mona Fiordalisa. The popularity of opera based on the one hand, on the other hand, three double roles to which Dovskys template inspired the composer.