Die Kluge

  • The Kluge, farmer's daughter ( teen lyric soprano )
  • The King (baritone )
  • First Tramp (Tenor)
  • Second Tramp (baritone )
  • Third Tramp ( bass)
  • The Farmer (bass buffo )
  • The jailer ( serious bass )
  • The man with the mule (baritone )
  • The man with the donkey (tenor buffo )

The Kluge is an opera in one act by Carl Orff, the " The wise farmer's daughter " (KHM 94 ), the Tales of the Brothers Grimm to the original. The work is subtitled " The story of the king and the wise woman." The premiere was held in Frankfurt am Main on 20 February 1943.

Orchestra

3 large ( and small ) flutes, 3 oboes ( and English horn), 3 clarinets (including bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, timpani, percussion for 4 players ( bass drum, 2 small drums, tenor drum, tambourine, triangle, stone game, sand rattles, cymbals, various pools, Tam-tam, ratchet clamp, castanet, tubular bells, xylophone, glockenspiel ), harp, celesta, piano, strings. Music for the Stage: Different drums, one small, bright-sounding Trömmelchen, small bells, 3 trumpets, organ.

Action

One day a farmer brings a golden mortar pestle with no home, he found the King on the field. He wants to bring him in expectation of a reward the king. But his daughter warns him that the king would certainly require even after the plunger and accuse the finder of embezzlement. The prediction proves true, the farmer will be cast into prison, and in his despair he calls again and again (so that sets the opera one ): Oh if I had only thought of my daughter, only believed only be believed! This is the ruler 's ears, and he calls for her daughter. When she solves three riddles asked of him with ease, he lets the farmer free and makes the daughter, " the Wise ", to his wife. But this only goes so well until they tried a donkey owner who was treated unfairly by the king to help, and it is expelled from the castle. You may bring in a chest, what their heart is the most, and chooses the king, after having given him a sleeping potion (shoe - schuhu it fall to the king eyes ). Thus she is able to save himself and defeat the ruler entirely.

Reception

Orff received in 1949 for The Kluge the newly created National Prize of the GDR III. Class for art and literature. Orff was the price later.

Recordings ( selection)

  • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Marcel Cordes - Gottlob Frick - Philharmonia Orchestra - Wolfgang Sawallisch. Prologue and epilogue spoken by Carl Orff. EMI 1956
  • Lucia Popp - Thomas Stewart - Gottlob Frick - Munich Radio Orchestra - Kurt Eichhorn. Directed by Carl Orff. Ariola Euro Disc 1970
  • Karl -Heinz Stryczek - Pure Sweet - Magdalena Falewicz - Horand Friedrich - Rundfunk-Sinfonie -Orchester Leipzig - Herbert Kegel. ETERNA 1982
Bass (voice type) Orchestral percussion Snare drum Triangle (instrument) Lithophone Rattle (percussion instrument) Zeno.org Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart Integrated Authority File
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