The Happy Prince and Other Tales#.22The Nightingale and the Rose.22

The Nightingale and the Rose ( The Nightingale and the Rose) is a literary fairy tale by Oscar Wilde. It appeared in 1888 in the prose collection The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales. Of these, it is one of the better known, there are several adaptations for ballet and opera.

Content

A young student wants to dance with the daughter of a professor at a ball. But you only agrees when he brings her a red rose. The student is unhappy that he has not a rose in the garden, because he loves the daughter of the professor. A nightingale has pity on him and is impressed by his loyalty, so she embarks on a search for a red rose. She asks several rose bushes to give her a rose, but none of them is red. When she asks the red rosebush after a rose, he explains, the winter was too hard and he has not stood in flowers. But he could produce with the help of the heart blood of the nightingale a flower and turn red. The nightingale is prepared to do, because she wants the students to help. At night, she undergoes the terrible test: it stings a thorn of the rose bush so deep in your chest, he pierced her heart and sings all night for the shrub. The next morning as the student sees the rose, he immediately bring them to the professor's daughter. These dismisses him because the nephew of the Chamberlains has promised her jewelry. Disappointed throws the student continues the Rose and withdraws into his studies.

Arrangements for musical theater

  • Renzo Bossi Rinaldo (1883-1965): Rosa rossa (L' Usinguolo e la rosa, op 18; 1910). Poemetto lirico ( opera ) in one act Libretto: Renzo Bossi. UA 1938 Turin
  • Henry Hadley (1871-1937): The Nightingale and the Rose (op. 54, 1911). Cantata for soprano, female choir ( SSAA) and orchestra. Libretto: E. W. Grant. UA 1911 New York
  • Hooper Brewster -Jones (1887-1949): The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1927). Opera. Libretto:? (only orchestral suite received )
  • Harold Fraser -Simson (1872-1944): The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1927). Ballet. Libretto:?
  • Janis Kalnins (1904-2000): The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1938). Ballet. Libretto:?
  • Margaret Garwood: The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1973). Opera. Libretto:?
  • Friedrich Voss ( born 1930 ): The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1961). Ballet. Libretto: . UA 1962 Oberhausen
  • Jonathan Rutherford: The Nightingale and the Rose. Opera ( 1966). Libretto:?
  • Roger Hannay: The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1986). Multi-media piece. Libretto:?
  • Elena Firsova: The Nightingale and the Rose (op. 46, 1990/91 ). Chamber Opera. Libretto: Elena Firsova (using poems by Christina Rossetti )
  • Jan Müller- Wieland: The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1996). Chamber opera in one act UA 1996 Darmstadt
  • Bruce Sled (* 1975): The Nightingale and the Rose ( 1998). Opera. Libretto: . UA 6 November 1998, Vancouver (Chan Centre for the Performing Arts; Irene Kurka [ Nightingale ], UBC Opera Ensemble, Conductor: Richard Epp, directed by Nancy Hermiston )
  • Michael Strong: The Nightingale and the Rose, chamber opera in four scenes ( 2005-2006 / 2008), UA: 2010 in Bayreuth

Audiobook

  • The Nightingale and the Rose, read by Anna R. Rosenstolz, Publisher: the language area

Others

  • Chris de Burgh used the fabric for the song "The Nightingale " in his album " Moonfleet & Other Stories ".
  • In the 2011 released album Storm of paradise by Xavier Rudd, a Mittelalter-/Folk-Rock band, there is a song called nightingale and rose, which recounts the story
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