Eine Nacht in Venedig
- Barbara Delaqua (soprano )
- Duke Guido of Urbino (Tenor)
- Annina, fisherman's daughter ( soubrette )
- Caramello, personal barber of the Duke ( Tenorbuffo )
- Pappacoda, macaroni cooking (baritone )
- Senator Bartolomeo Delaqua, husband of Barbara ( bass)
- Ciboletta, servant at Delaqua (Alt )
- Agricola Barbaruccio (Alt )
- A herald (baritone )
- Six women senators ( sopranos and Old )
- Senator Barbaruccio (actor)
- Senator Testaccio (actor)
- Constantina Testaccio, his wife (actress )
- Enrico Piselli, naval officer (actor)
- Centurion, a Page (actress )
- Balbi, a servant (actor)
- Peppino, a boy (child role or actress)
- Cavaliers, guests, musicians, servants, senators and their wives, mask carrier, gondoliers, sailors, fishermen, people (choir, ballet and supernumeraries )
A Night in Venice is a " comic operetta" in three acts by Johann Strauss. The libretto was written by Camillo Walzel (pseudonym: Friedrich cell ) and Richard Genée. On 3 October 1883, was first performed in Berlin in the New Friedrich -Wilhelm Municipal Theatre. The operetta takes just under three hours. The action takes place in Venice in the mid- 18th century and is a panel and comedy of errors with love confusion between two stands.
Formation
Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée had two textbooks for a new operetta to choose from: A Night in Venice and The Beggar Student. Johann Strauss chose the first book; with the other Karl Millöckers began career. Like many other Viennese operettas is the libretto editing a French opéra comique (hence the term " comic operetta" ): Le Château trompette (1860 ) by François Auguste Gevaert. A plagiarism accusation from Paris showed, however, that such secondary use were not as unproblematic as even a generation ago.
Because Strauss's wife had an affair with Franz Steiner, the director of the Theater an der Wien begun, Strauss did not want to be premiered there and accepted the offer of the Berlin operetta. The premiere was to failure. Nevertheless, the work was performed again and again, but mostly in arrangements. The most well-known in Western Europe this processing comes from Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1923). In eastern Europe the processing of Walter Felsenstein (1952 ) was played much more frequently. Which remained, unlike the processing of Korngold, clearly the original, avoiding the incorporated in Korngold numbers from other operettas by Strauss.
The most famous musical numbers are the Lagoon Waltz and the gondola song. The Vienna - Venice fashion later had its peak in the theme park Venice in Vienna.
In the context of a media debate about the alleged decline of the Viennese operetta Erich Wolfgang Korngold worked as a partisan of the Conservatives, the piece in 1923 for the Theater an der Wien. The tenor Richard Tauber received in a starring role. This version has been played often around at the Vienna Volksoper until the recent time and also on recordings more present than the original.
Orchestra
Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a harp, percussion and strings
Action
The operetta plays during Carnival in Venice in the 18th century.
Act I
Image: Space on the Grand Canal
Duke Guido of Urbino is known in Venice that he can burn anything in terms of women. Especially during the carnival, he is keen to cheat his wife with another beauty. For this purpose he invited the senators of the city with their wives at a masked ball. However, because the senators know what the lecher been feeding her, she decided to leave their wives at home. Bartolomeo Delaqua even goes a step further: He wants his wedded wife accommodate him during the ball at the monastery outside the city and take in its place their maid Ciboletta as group leader. This plan has come to the ears of Duke Guido. Ironically, the racy Barbara will not attend his party? This must be prevented under all circumstances, it is but this year the object of his desire! He has not yet seen, but what is so all reports about them, has aroused his curiosity.
Caramello is not only Guido's personal barber, but also his factotum, which has so often helped him in embarrassing situations. He is awarded the contract, Barbara Delaqua track down and deliver his palazzo.
The beautiful Barbara again felt no desire to obey her husband's plans. Rather, it is also eager to have fun during Carnival. In such emergency situations, it maintains with the fisherman girl Annina to change clothes to slip into the role. With Annina it combines an old friendship, eventually both had had the same even as babies nurse. Barbara has an admirer, of which her husband does not know anything. It is his nephew, the charming naval officer Enrico Piselli. With him she wants to enjoy the carnival bustle today.
Caramello has found that a gondolier Delaquas to bring women to the monastery. So he pushes the young man a erkleckliches penny in his hand, and already Caramello has become the ordered gondolier. Now he has an easy to supply the beauty of his Lord and Master.
Second Act
Image: Ceremonial Hall in the palace of the Duke
Upon arrival at the Palazzo turns out that Caramello is the victim of an error; because the girl in the gondola is not the senator's wife, but the fishing girl Annina, he knows only too well. Finally, he has several times promised her marriage, but always chickened out when it threatened to become serious. And now it is to imagine Annina as Barbara Delaqua his Lord? Caramello not have a good feeling about it; but he sees no other way out. With jealous eyes, he notices that his girlfriend makes in the role of Senator wife a splendid figure, and this even flirts with her role with relish. The Duke is fooled and is delighted by the cheeky person to the utmost. It, however, does not succeed to be with his beloved even a minute alone.
As new guests Senator Delaqua be registered with wife. The Duke is confused at first, but he believes that the latter was there long ago. Annina but soothed him, she herself had been the right one. The companion of the Duke was only the maid Ciboletta. But this seems to have pepper in the blood. DC makes himself ran to the master of the house. Your goal is to grab at him a job for her lover, the macaroni cooking Pappacoda. This in turn Delaqua does not fit. He has finally taken the only reason to make them beg a manager post at Duke for him.
Act Three
Picture: On St. Mark's Square
Meanwhile, the company has shifted its hard carnaval parade from the Palazzo St. Mark's Square. Senator Delaqua amazed not bad when he sees there, strolling by the arm of his nephew Enrico Piselli his dear wife. She should still be in the monastery! Outraged, he presents them to task. And how is the elegant lady pulls out of the mess? She dangles her husband before simply, the gondolier took her against her wishes to the wrong target, yes, he wanted to kidnap normal. The Enrico expensive but have noticed this, and delivered them from the fatal situation. Therefore, he also had to be Enrico grateful.
When Senator Delaqua now his real wife presented to the Duke, this is perplexed; Finally, it is already the third lady who is supposed to be Barbara Delaqua. But be that as it may, he has to Annina found such a great favor, that he would have necessarily on a permanent basis in its vicinity. Since it is known to have a relationship with Caramello, he appoints these ado to his foreman. In this way, Annina will inevitably show up frequently in the Palazzo. And when times Caramello is prevented by an order from him to look after his girlfriend, then perhaps would offer but yet had the opportunity ...
Well-known musical numbers
- I greet you, you lovely Venetia ( comes from the Korngold machining 1923, original from Strauss operetta Simplicius )
- Welcome, my friends
- Come into the pod, my darling, o climb only a
- Be true, which is not me (after Korngold version 1923)
- Oh, how wonderful to behold, are all the lovely Fraunhofer
- All masked, where fun, where madness and lust reigns!
- So be happy, be happy, Venezia!
Films
The work was filmed three times: