Die Landstreicher

  • Berta lilac bush, vagabond (soprano )
  • August lilac bush whose husband, also tramp ( Tenorbuffo )
  • Mimi, a dancer (soprano )
  • Prince Adolar Gilka (Tenor or Baritone)
  • Anna Gratwohl (soprano )
  • Gerichtsassessor Roland (tenor )
  • Lieutenant Mucki of Rodensteinstrasse (mezzo- soprano or Tenorbuffo )
  • Lieutenant Rudi of Muggenheim ( soprano or baritone)
  • Usher Kampel ( basso buffo )
  • Gratwohl, a host, Anna's father (baritone or basso buffo )
  • Leitgeb owner ( baritone)
  • Stöber, conductor of a male voice choir ( tenor or baritone)
  • Woman Leitgeb ( Alt)
  • Lajos of Geletneky, painter (Tenor or Baritone)
  • The dancers Adi, Lori, Nicki, Fifi
  • Chambermaids, waiters, bikers couple listener process, peasants, summer sun, glee club, costumed guests (chorus and supernumeraries )

The tramp is an operetta in a prelude and two acts by Carl Michael Ziehrer. The libretto was written Leopold Krenn and Karl Lindau. Premiere was on July 26, 1899 at the Summer Theatre Venice in Vienna. A later revision made ​​by the director of the theater Lehar Ignaz Brantner could not prevail. Out of the 22 operettas, composed by Ziehrer, only the tramps have proven to be viable in the long term.

Orchestra

Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a harp, percussion and strings

Action

Place and time

The operetta set at the end of the 19th century in Upper Bavaria, in the Brantnerschen recast in the Wachau ( Austria ) and in Vienna in the 1900 and 1914.

Foreplay

Picture: simultaneous stage on one side of a detention facility, on the other side of the courtroom in the court

The vagrant couple August and Bertha lilac bush is on the road a valuable pearl necklace and a thousand -mark note. Overjoyed, the two go to the next inn and order a sumptuous meal. They naturally fall to, as can close their clothes after the couple such an expensive meal ever not afford. The police is quick to point and brings the two to justice. Assessor Roland is in a hurry. He quickly seized the jewelry and the money can bring the suspects to the detention facility and flock to his mistress, the innkeeper's daughter Anna Gratwohl.

August and Berta lilac bush looking in their prison from the walls and discover an unlocked door. Through this they will return to the negotiating room. Since no one is present, they search the closet for things that might be of use. They also find the confiscated items they now taking them away. Just as they leave the building, enters Prince Adolar Gilka the room, accompanied by the dancer Mimi. Without thinking twice, to August lilac bush brushing the robe of the judge and asks the entrants according to their desire. The prince announces he is a precious necklace stolen. The matter was being investigated, of course, replies the supposed judge. The Lord and the Lady may for the time being issued in the next room and wait there. No sooner is the door shut and locked, take August and Berta Fliederbusch the coats and hats of the imprisoned, they could be in the courtroom, and take flight.

As a little later Gerichtsassessor Roland returns, he is amazed not bad as he wants to show off the tramp couples and instead two completely different people enter the negotiating room. He immediately orders to follow the shady characters.

Act I

Picture: In front of a hotel on a lake in Upper Bavaria

A few days have passed. August and Berta lilac bush have now learned that the precious necklace is exposed to a high reward. This has lured into the place in the City Hall, they can be redeemed. But before leaving the official procedure to go through, they rent a room in the exclusive hotel " Black Eagle ". They carry themselves as " Prince Adolar Gilka with accompaniment " guestbook.

The painter Lajos of Geletniky feels as fiancé dancer Mimi. He has come to my attention that his bride was allegedly abducted by a certain Adolar Gilka and the hijackers would " Black Eagle " expected in the near future at the hotel. When he sees the supposed prince, he wants to beat him. Only with great effort succeeds August lilac bush to appease the angry painter.

Suddenly, running ahead of the hotel before a splendid carriage, which draws the attention of everyone. You emerge from the real prince Gilka, the dancer Mimi and the two lieutenants and Rudi Mucki. Adolar Gilka has here an appointment with a jeweler, whose workshop he gave the order to make copies of his valuable chain a cheap imitation to give then Mimi. When he sees come with the chain August lilac bush, he keeps him for the jeweler. The tramp does not hesitate, presents the chain to Miss Mimi and requests the completely befuddled prince very politely, to leave him as soon as possible to get the reward. The dream of the big reward but suddenly destroyed, because just now meets Assessor Roland with the bailiff Kampel one at the hotel. Both ensure that the alleged thieves see nothing of the reward. August Lilac Bush and his wife have to go underground again.

There smiles the sea; He invites you to swim, think the two lieutenants. They should remove their uniforms and plunge into the water. The couple Lilac Bush sees the colorful uniforms and can not resist to acquire these. With the new camouflage it easier for them to practice their "craft".

Second Act

Image: Festive lighted castle park

Prince Adolar Gilka drives by just the thought of how it could succeed Mimi Necklace remove it again, without his relationship with her ​​litte less. He manages to track down the two lilac bush. He holds both for so refined that they are to act in his plan as a tool. After he gives them the mandate and has assured them it was only for their benefit if they played along, come August and Berta lilac bush at the summer festival in Castle Park as a magician. They succeed admirably to come with a few sleights of the people under its spell. Berta asks Mimi to hand her the necklace for a short time. When she is in possession of it, they swapped it with the imitation and this is the cheeky person back.

The longer the presentation, the more sympathy felt by the prince for the vagabond couple. Already he plans to commit the two " artists " in the future for similar festivals. For Assessor Roland he sought, that the warrant is withdrawn. At the end of the operetta turns out that the prince had gone even a con artist on the glue when he bought the pearl necklace; because even the supposed original is just a worthless imitation.

Musical Highlights

The very popular, slightly sentimental work awaits with a plethora ingratiating melodies. The best known are the duet of the two lieutenants Rudi and Mucki That is the magic of the outfit, praised the impressive Walzerlied the court assessor Roland in the first final Be you warm nights, have two hearts made ​​so happy, and finally again a duet between Rudi and Mucki What we also always the day has brought.

Filming

The piece was filmed in 1937 under the direction of Carl Lamac from a screenplay by Geza von Cziffra. The film starred Paul Hörbiger, Lucie English, Rudolf Carl, Erika Drusovich and Rudolf Platte. However, could be heard was not the original music by Carl Michael Ziehrer; they rang out in an arrangement by Paul Hühn. According to the dictionary of international film is an " old-fashioned comedy in a brisk pace after motifs from Carl Ziehrers eponymous operetta".

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