Mam'zelle Nitouche
- Denise de Flavigny, called " Mam'zelle Nitouche " ( soubrette )
- Célestin (baritone )
- Count Fernand de Champlatreux, Lieutenant (Tenor)
- Major Count of Chateau- Gibus ( basso buffo )
- Mother Therese, manager of a boarding house (Alt )
- Corinne, singer (soprano )
- Lydia, singer ( soubrette )
- Dorival, Buffosänger ( Tenorbuffo )
- Loriot, Officer ( basso buffo )
- The Director (voice)
- The Director ( voice)
- A soldier (voice)
- Students, theater people, soldiers (chorus )
Mam'zelle Nitouche (French, about: "Miss oversensitive " ) is one of the most famous French operettas. Composed by Hervé work with a text by Henri Meilhac has three acts and premiered on January 26, 1883 in the Théâtre des Variétés.
Mam'zelle Nitouche part with loose vocals to the then modern genre of vaudeville operettas that the operatic operetta by Charles Lecocq about stood against. It reflects a world of entertainment in the late 19th century, which is already dominated by the music halls, and café concerts. The plot is a precisely functioning Schwank. Due to the anti-French nationalism at that time, the plant has not naturalized in the German language area. Very well known, it is about in the Czech Republic.
Orchestra
Two flutes, one oboe, two clarinets, one bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, a trombone, a harp, a piano, a harmonium, great percussion and strings
Image sequence
Act I, Figure 1: a music room Mädchenpensionats; Act II, Scene 2: Stage corridor; Act III, Scene 3: parade ground; Figure 4: Music Room of Mädchenpensionats
Action
The church organist Célestin is also a composer of operettas and music teacher at a girls' boarding school. He performs with his students on a work in the theater of Pontarcy, which is highly respected by the military stationed there. With its main actress Corinne Célestin has a love affair, which awakens the jealousy of a dragoon majors who happens to be the brother of the Pensionatsleiterin. Moreover, His Lieutenant Fernand tried for the first time to see him in the performance of his promised bride he does not know yet. He falls in love with Denise, who, as it turns out only at the end, his bride to be. Denise weaves clever intrigue, therefore it is the " Mam'zelle Nitouche ". Because of the love entanglements, the performance of the operetta nearly bursts, but in the end find the two pairs together.
As in the Viennese operetta, there is a 3 -act comedy, the Brigadier Loriot.
Effect
The title role was closely associated with the actress and singer Anna Judic that it embodied for many years. The operetta has survived to this day in the Paris repertoire. As Célestin the actor Fernandel later became famous, who is also in the film adaptation of Yves Allégret (1954 ) embodied this role at the side of Pier Angeli.
The acclaimed translation by Richard Genée could not be established in the German language area. Rescue attempts in the 20th century took before Renato Mordo 1929 in Darmstadt and Hans Weigel and Alexander Steinbrecher in Munich in 1955. Nevertheless, the operetta not part of the German repertoire was in contrast to Jacques Offenbach's most important works. The German film Mademoiselle Nitouche by Carl Lamac with Julia Serda and Oskar Karl Weis 1931 could unfold only little effect two years before the Nazi seizure of power.