Die drei Pintos
- Don Pantaleon de Paccheco ( bass)
- Clarissa, his daughter (Soprano)
- Gaston, Student
- Don Gomez de Freiros, Clarissa's lover (Tenor)
- Laura, Clarissa's maid (mezzo- soprano)
- Don Pinto de Fonseca, young Landadeliger ( bass)
- Ambrosio, Don Pintos servant (baritone )
- The host (Bass)
- Inez, innkeeper's daughter (soprano )
- Noble, guests, servants and people
The Three Pintos ( Jähns Opus Annex 5) is an opera by Carl Maria von Weber and is called: joke gorgeous opera in three acts. The lyrics were written by Theodor Hell ( = Karl Winkler ) based on the novella The Bride fight Carl Seidel. The opera remained unfinished and was later posthumously edited and completed by Gustav Mahler.
Action
Act I
Don Pantaleon and his friend Don Anselmo Fonseco want to marry her two children, Clarissa and Don Pinto together. Don Pinto knows Clarissa not and therefore travels to Madrid to get to know them. Along the way, Don Pinto takes over at a restaurant in which he takes a rest. The restaurant is just celebrated the farewell of students Gaston. Don Pinto attends the banquet is part and after some time drunk under a table and sleeping off his intoxication from. Gaston has to spend all his money and decides to steal from the drunken Don Pinto. He takes in addition to the money and the papers in and traveling to Don Pintos place to Madrid.
Second Act
Don Pantaleon has gathered with his relatives and friends in the ancestral hall of his castle. Man waiting for Don Pinto, to welcome him. Clarissa is grieved. She secretly loves Don Gomez de Freiros and do not want to marry Don Pinto. Clarissa's maid Laura knows about their love for Don Gomez and comforts Clarissa.
Act Three
Meanwhile " Don Pinto ," the truth is in Gaston, arrived at the castle and is reported. Before this can happen, he is intercepted by Don Gomez, Gaston explained that Clarissa was actually his bride. Gaston would like Clarissa no longer married and consults with Don Gomez, is how to proceed. It was decided that Don Gomez should spend on Pinto. This is received as " Don Pinto " warm welcome from the assembled guests.
Meanwhile, coming to the real Don Pinto. He enters into a faux pas and is immediately thrown out of the hall. When the truth about the " Three Pintos " finally comes to light, it is already too late. Don Gomez and Clarissa have already given up the knot.
Creation and performance history
Whether Weber's manuscript of the entire opera was stolen after his death by one of the mourners from Weber's house in London in 1826, as the British music writer John Warrack suspected in his Weber- biography can no longer be detected. It is certain that Weber has left an entire, highly detailed compositional plan of the three-act opera.
Weber began composing in 1820, his last work thing is dated 20 September 1824. Only seven musical numbers of the opera originate in the original von Weber's hand. After his death, Weber's wife has first passed Giacomo Meyerbeer the score sketches for editing and completion. But this left the manuscripts twenty years are ignored. 1847 she received Weber's son Max Maria back. The grandson of the composer, the captain Carl von Weber, inherited these manuscripts. It was at this time in garrison in Leipzig, where he made the acquaintance of the young Gustav Mahler. Mahler, who was very interested in the woman Carl von Weber, received from him the opera sketches and even wrote a text revision of the libretto. The young composer set a new plan for the three acts of the opera and composed, according to Weber's motifs and themes from other compositions, the entire opera, largely well as the composer, in the summer of 1887 new. The premiere took place on January 20, 1888 held at New City Theater in Leipzig, in which Therese Rothauser sang.
Reception
Even by his contemporaries, the libretto was perceived as problematic, even in the revised version: " The amendment of borrowed material would be suitable for a Intriguenlustspiel, but is not particularly created for a comic opera; because it lacks the subtlety that ' looks so appealing in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro; he is more of fluctuating like bluntness. (...) Perhaps the editors could give the text a new spice, if they had not kept too reverent to the Weberian relics: it lacks the increase; The second act is dramatic without content and contains only lyrical numbers, so his success was beiweitem duller than that of the first act; the whole adjourned ever finer linkage and impact more finished humor. "
The music of Weber, as well as the processing, however, received the unanimous approval of the audience: " The musical relics Weber 's date from the time when he had to, Freischütz ' komponirt, so include an epoch fresh and joyful recovery on. In particular, this applies to the songs and the trio of the first act; but also the trio of the third act and the song of Ambrosio, it may now come from Weber or nachkomponirt him, are of graceful attitude and winning freshness. The aria of Clarissa and the song of Laura in the second act reminiscent of the heart outpourings of Agathe and Aennchen: both are komponirt after other non-published issues of the Master. The introduction to the second act is put together very cleverly by Mahler, as indeed the whole device as a respectable test of talent of the young composer appears. The melodies themselves are supposed to be nearly all taken from the Weberian legacy, if not for the three Pinto's were also komponirt. "
Discography
- Total recording: Gary Bertini; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Kurt Moll, Heinz Kruse, Werner Hollweg, Franz reason Heber, Hermann Prey and others; Label: RCA Classic ( 1976) / Sony BGM (1995).
- Total recording: Paolo Arrivabeni; National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus; Peter Furlong, Robert Holzer, Sophie Marilley, Stewart Kempster, Sinead Campbell, Ales Jenis and others; Label: Naxos 2004 ( recorded at the Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland; October 2003).
Music / Libretto
- The Three Pintos. Vocal score and libretto. C.F.Peters, music publishing, Frankfurt q.s.
- Carl Maria von Weber: New Complete Edition