Irrelohe

  • Count Henry, Lord on Irrelohe (Tenor)
  • The forester ( bass)
  • Eve, his daughter (Soprano)
  • The old Lola (Alt )
  • Peter, her son (baritone )
  • Christo Soon, a wedding Players (Tenor)
  • The pastor ( bass-baritone )
  • The Miller ( bass)
  • Three Musicians: spark, beam bush, ratzekahl (tenor, baritone, bass)
  • Anselm, caretaker of the castle ( bass-baritone )
  • A footman (Tenor)
  • Mother and sister of the Count, dignitaries of the village, lackeys, villagers

Irrelohe is an opera in three acts by Franz Schreker, who composed the music and the libretto. The plot is the gothic novel by Edgar Allan Poe and ETA Hoffmann close, and plays in the 18th century castle and village Irrelohe, an imaginary place, was inspired to Schreker 's name on the passage through the Irrenlohe station. The opera was premiered in 1924 in Cologne.

Action

In the castle Irrelohe a curse: The dynasty of Irrelohe comes from the connection of a mad man with a female water spirit. For this curse comes in everyone's life counts Irrelohe the day on which he inflamed with madness ( Irrelohe ) raped a woman and then sinks into madness and deranged dies. The old Count has so raped on his wedding thirty years ago, a girl from the village, and is insane. His son, the young Count Heinrich, lives only in the world of books and leaves the castle barely. The old landlady Lola - who was that girl - sings the same song every night. Her son, Peter, who is from the rape, is a loner, only with the forester 's daughter Eve he has contact. At Eva 's after the young Count. The mad musician Christo Soon, who was once engaged to Lola, shall each year, in a fire place. The plot revolves around the mystery of what happened thirty years ago.

Development and performance

After completion of the composition of the treasure -digger in the fall of 1918, Schreker turned to new opera projects. He was greatly impressed by the Egyptian and Greek mythology, Memnon, especially in the first time in 1885 published depiction of Adolf Friedrich von Schack. In the summer of 1919 he wrote a libretto, whose action in ancient Egypt is located. Shortly after completion of this work he wrote in just three days a second libretto, which he called Irrelohe: on the journey from Dresden to Nuremberg held his train in Irrenlohe station, and the station announcement he heard Irrelohe: " Blazing Insanity " Schreker completed the composition from 1920 to 1922, the opera was first published in 1923.

The premiere took place on March 27, 1924 at the Municipal Theatre Cologne under the direction of Otto Klemperer held performances followed in seven other cities. The opera was received with mixed reviews, and could not find a permanent place in the repertoire. The opera Bielefeld led to Irrelohe 1985, followed by the Vienna Volksoper (2004) and the Bonn Opera (2010).

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