Der junge Lord
- Sir Edgar ( mute role )
- His secretary (baritone )
- Lord Barrat, nephew of Sir Edgar (Tenor)
- Begonia, cook from Jamaica
- Mayor ( bass-baritone )
- Upper Judicial rabbits Hits (Baritone)
- Female Tops Judicial rabbits Hits (soprano )
- Ökonomierat Sharp (baritone )
- Professor of Mucker ( Tenorbuffo )
- Baroness Griinwiesel (mezzo- soprano)
- Wife of Hufnagel (mezzo- soprano)
- Louise, the Baroness Ward (soprano )
- Ida, her friend ( coloratura soprano)
- Maid (soprano )
- Wilhelm, student (tenor )
- Armin Goals La Rocca, Ringmaster (Tenor)
- Light shiner (baritone )
The young Lord is a comic opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to a libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann. The fabric is on the parabola back The monkey as a human being by Wilhelm Hauff from his collection The Sheik of Alexandria and his slaves. The opera was premiered in 1965 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi in a production directed by Gustav Rudolf Sellner.
Action
Act I
Scene 1 ( square of the small town sleeve village -Gotha ): The residents of the village sleeve -Gotha waiting for Sir Edgar, a noble scholars from England. The Lord arrives and moves with his exotic entourage and a lot of luggage into a rented house, without having to change any residents with a single word. In the tumult speak Luise, the richest resident of the city, and the student Wilhelm first time together. Luise, a ward of Baroness Griinwiesel is desperate because she wants to marry off the Baroness to Sir Edgar.
Scene 2 (salon of the Baroness Griinwiesel ) The Baroness Sir Edgar expected to tea, but the Turkish Page Jeremy brings about a rejection of the invitation. The outraged Baroness swears Sir Edgar to make life in the city to hell.
Scene 3 ( market place of sleeve village -Gotha with built circus ) Sir Edgar is now forfeited also with the population and the rest of the notables of the city by giving a traveling circus money and its artists invited to his house, further closed the townsfolk remains. City kids hunt behind Jeremy, who flees in his distress in the house of Sir Edgar.
Second Act
Scene 1 ( Winter evening on the square of the village sleeve -Gotha ) From the home of Sir Edgar penetrate screams and strange noises. The distressed citizens of the city, however, can appease the secretary of Sir Edgar. This explains that these were the audible sign of the difficulties that have the nephew of Sir Edgar in learning the German language. The nephew Lord Barrat - the young lord - to learn German so that it can be presented to the society of the city. On the edge of the Assembly at the square Louise and Wilhelm meet.
Scene 2 (reception at the home of Sir Edgar ) The house of Sir Edgar is first opened to the citizens of the city: a reception are all invited, is presented to the young lord. All give enthusiastic about Lord Barrats manners, even if they seem strange part. William, the behavior of the young lords over Luise does not fit, insulted Lord Barrat. Then Luise faints and William must leave the reception.
Scene 3 ( Grand Ballroom in the Casino of leguminous village -Gotha ) At a ball off the engagement between Louise and the young Lord to be announced. The ball guests mimic the increasingly wild dancing young Lord, some go so far as to tear the clothes from the body. As is clearly what is going on with the young lord at: Lord Barrat is a trained monkey in human clothes, which dates from the circus. The resulting tumult Sir Edgar and his secretary left the scene, Louise and Wilhelm reconciliation.
Productions
The opera was performed in 1967 in San Diego and Houston, 1973 by the New York City Opera. The libretto was translated into English by Eugene Waller.