Un mari à la porte

• Florian Woodpecker ( Tenor)
• Martin Preller, Executor (baritone )
• Susanne, his wife (mezzo- soprano or alto)
• Rosine (soprano )

A husband in front of the door ( Un Mari à la Porte ) is a French operetta in one act ( opéra bouffe - ) by Jacques Offenbach. The libretto was by Alfred Charlemagne Delacour and Leon Morand. The German version anxious Adolf train and Johann Christoph Green Tree. The work was premiered on June 22, 1859 at the Théâtre des Bouffes in Paris.

Action

Florian woodpecker was surprised during a lovers with a married woman from her husband and had to flee across the rooftops. Now he stands in a room of a house unknown to him and can not get out. When he hears voices, he hides in a chest. The newly married Susanne enters outraged the room, while accompanied by her confidante Raisin, trying to appease the bride. Susanne was annoyed at the wedding feast of the behavior of her husband Martin Preller and provoked with their departure the first marriage crisis yet on the wedding day. Raisin holds Susan's behavior is exaggerated and makes fun.

When Susanne then is still obstinate and will not give in, Raisin change their tactics: in a song she paints her situation and their future in the brightest colors. After this lengthy insert Susanne is voted down again mild and wants to return to the party. At the same time Florian woodpecker has become the air in the chest and he almost falls out, to the horror of the two women to breathe freely again can. After he succeeds, the Panic of Susanne and raisin curb something, he introduces himself and tells them his life.

When the ladies finally take confidence in him and the situation seems cleaned up, knocking the impatient become husband to the door and asks his bride to be let. However, this does not think even think about it and teases the newly minted husband by telling him of the strange man in her room. Martin Preller you think but of course not a word and highly amused that the two women in the room in turn incites to drive the fun to the extreme. Finally, the husband at the door but is impatient and threatens to break up with this violence. To avoid a scandal, decides Florian woodpecker, to sacrifice themselves for the honor of Susanne and raisin and is ready to pounce on them from the window, but not without taking before with tragic tone farewell to the world. When he finally actually jumps and lands quickly, he noted that it was only a stone's throw from the ground floor. The two women enjoying themselves on his " heroism ", which in turn irritates him and to incite to make the cheeky Raisin an application. The almost forgotten about husband finally enters the room and asks something piqued who this young gentleman unless there what raisin Florian introduces himself as her fiancé, so that at the end everyone is happy.

Known songs

• Ha, ha! How did you get to complain!
• Listen, my fair one, hear these tones, sweet and clear
• Florian woodpecker I am called
• He laughs, but he now goes glass from mouth to mouth in defiance
• From all reproach to befrein you, I dare brave the big jump ( Lamentation )