Cagliostro in Wien
- Empress Maria Theresa
- Maria Luisa, Infanta of Spain
- Baron Sebastian Schnucki, imperial customs commissioner
- Count Cagliostro, adventurers and artists Black
- Lorenza, an Italian street singer
- Feri von Lieven, Lieutenant
- Mrs. Adami
- Anne Marie, her niece
- Teiglein, pastry chef, Anne Marie's guardian
- Blasoni, Beppo and Barberino, Cagliostro agents
- Severin, Schaubude owner
- A host
- The Lord Chamberlain
- Courtiers, ladies, people, soldiers, police (chorus and supernumeraries )
Cagliostro in Vienna is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss ( son). The libretto was written by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée. The work was first performed on February 27, 1875 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. This article deals with the revision of 1941 by Gustav Quedenfeldt (text) and Karl Tutein ( music).
Action
Act I
The Italian adventurer Cagliostro bored on a secret mission in Vienna. At the behest of senior French politician, he should prevent the imminent engagement of the Austrian Archduke Leopold with the Spanish heiress Marie Louise. With the help of bondage to him street singer Lorenza succeeds Cagliostro, to win the favor of the imperial customs commissioner Baron Sebastian Schnucki. He shall serve as a key for an audience with the Empress Maria Theresa. Baron Schnucki but just plaguing other concerns: A few years ago he has the bourgeois women Adami promised marriage and this pushes him now, finally fulfill his promise. Woman Adamis niece Anne Marie again would like to be led by the Lieutenant Feri von Lieven to the altar, but the rich aunt does not advance the requisite money out.
Second Act
Cagliostro has managed to be admitted to the Schönbrunn Palace. First he examined there for the Infanta. Thanks to its hypnotic powers he influenced them, the Empress to write a letter, they dispensed according to the on the engagement. About a detour reaches the letter in the hands of Baron Schnucki and Lieutenant Feri. The latter suspected immediately that Cagliostro is involved in the matter. However, the adventurers can resist his arrest by penetrates the Empress and convinced them that he had found a means by which he could transform any cheap metal into gold. Thus the magician has wrapped the gullible Empress around her little finger. When Lieutenant Feri she wants to clear up, she thinks him not a word.
Act Three
It does not take long, and Cagliostro sees swim away his furs. From his girlfriend Lorenza he learns his assistant Blasoni have denounced him to the service. With it all secret documents had disappeared. This plays to the disappointed Blasoni Lieutenant Feri, which can prove now that his suspicions were well founded. Now it falls to the Empress the scales from your eyes. The arrested adventurer promises freedom if he may redeem the Infanta from their hypnosis. These Cagliostro is understandably more than willing. As soon as he has the princess freed from her spell, he left Vienna on the quickest ways: with a waiting balloon.
Gradually solve the love problems of Ms Adami and her niece. Maria Theresa calls Baron Schnucki ultimatum to fulfill his promise of marriage. Reluctantly, he wants to add the claim; but to his relief Mrs. Adami has now found a better one: the Hofkonditormeister Teiglein, the guardian of her niece. Her sudden love for this man she agrees generous in money matters. Willingly she now represents the deposit Feri. To be found at the end of the operetta two happy couples.
Notes, music
Strauss' Cagliostro was the reverse fate fated as his bat: While this fell through at the premiere, but later brought him the greatest triumph, Cagliostro was initially a huge success, but later lost the public's favor. ( The initial success may be due not least to the fact that two of the roles with the public's favorite Marie Geistinger and Alexander Girardi were occupied. ) In the long run was in fact not to hear that the musical substance compared to the year earlier premiered bat was lower and also the textbook defects exhibited. Later attempts were made by various edits, save the work for the stage. At the most successful proved the from the year 1941 by Karl Gustav Tutein and Quedenfeldt. As musical highlights were highlighted:
- Gypsy child how shiny your hair
- The rose blooms when the sun kisses
- If I could fly with you through life ( Cagliostro - Walzer)
- High Austria ( march )
Strauss operetta material used this for a few concert pieces:
- " Cagliostro Quadrille ", op 369 (1875)
- " Cagliostro -Walzer ", Op 370 (1875)
- " High Austria! ", Op 371 (1875)
- "Here you go! ", Op 372 (1875), Polka
- " On the Hunt ", op 373 (1875), Schnellpolka
- "Light and Shadow ", op 374 (1875), Polka
Erich Korngold's arrangement of the operetta was first performed on 13 April 1927 in Vienna.