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In review: from around the world: Innsbruck.(International)(Der Zigeunerbaron)(Opera Review)
Austria is having an operetta crisis, as companies scramble for ways to keep the repertory fresh: flat, traditional stagings are lambasted as too conservative; Regietheater intrusions are greeted with howls of scorn and derision. Brigitte Fassbaender seems to have found a happy medium at her Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, treating the repertory with a fortuitous mix of youth and enthusiasm.
Pithier in plot and politics than the more familiar Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's Hungarian-flavored Der Zigeunerbaron (seen January 23) is the story of a Gypsy's fight to regain his property. The plot has a certain similarity to Il Trovatore: the duets and trios for Czipra, Barinkay and Saffi clearly parallel the Azucena/Manrico/Leonora triangle, and there is even a parody of the anvil chorus. After a strong (and long) Act I, the plot's setups fall a little too quickly and neatly into place, and the work succumbs to a predictable progression of musical numbers. ("Um Gottes Willen, noch ein Lied!"--For God's sake, another song--moans a chorister in a cheeky Act II interpolation.)
Former mezzo Fassbaender paints the story in dear, broad strokes, peppered with enough gags to keep the giggles coming: Szupan's pigs are omnipresent, squealing every time a door is opened and providing a porcine motif to a wedding cake; Barinkay is presented as a ...
- Strauss: A Night in Venice / Strauss: Der Zigeunerbaron
- Magazine article from: Opera News Traubner, Richard June 1, 1996 700+ words
...Russell, Schon, Smith, Stuarti; Martin. Everest 9036 Der Zigeunerbaron * Scheyrer, Loose, R.ssl-Majdan; Kmentt, Preger...versions in German undeniably offer more idiomatic readings. Der Zigeunerbaron is now popular all over again in the CD catalogue, and...
- Der Zigeunerbaron. (For the Record).(Correction Notice)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada December 22, 2002 700+ words
IN the Fall issue of Opera Canada, reviewer Robert Jordan wrote that Pacific Opera Victoria's production of Der Zigeunerbaron was the first ever in the Pacific Northwest. A reader gently pointed out that the work was in fact performed by the...
- Pacific Opera Victoria. (Canada: Victoria).(Der Zigeunerbaron)(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Jordan, Robert September 22, 2002 700+ words
Pacific Opera Victoria's Der Zigeuner-baron, the first-ever Pacific Northwest production, was an enjoyably effervescent affair, its slight message of personal truth seamlessly integrated into its frothy, fun-filled surface. Even though this production made concessions to an English-speaking
- Uber alles: musicals in Germany. (musical theater)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 8, 1994 700+ words
UNTIL recently such operettas as "Frau Luna", "Der Vetter aus Dingsda" and "Der Zigeunerbaron" provided the lighter musical fare at Germany's numerous state-supported regional theatres. But the theatres are developing...
- THE WORLD OF COMPACT DISCS.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Paterson, Anthony December 1, 1999 700+ words
...exhibitionistic self-pity.' Certainly Nikolaus Harnoncourt is already in that category, especially for his recording of 'Der Zigeunerbaron' where his edition restored much lost music to that masterly operetta. There has long been a view that only a true Viennese...
- Rethberg, Elisabeth
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
...York, 6 June 1976). German, later US, soprano. Studied Dresden with Watrin. Début Dresden 1915 (Arsena, Der Zigeunerbaron ). Dresden until 1922, then regularly; New York, M, 1922–42 (when she retired); London, CG, 1925...
- The Only Operetta Album You'll Ever Need!
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 2000 700+ words
...Wolgalied" sung by Jerry Hadley. You're probably getting the picture. The operettas represented are things like Der Zigeunerbaron, Martha, Eine Nacht in Venedig, Das Land des Lacheins, La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein, Orphee aux Enfers, and...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ROBERT COWAN August 18, 1995 700+ words
...s helter-skelter, or the heady exuberance of the Radetzky March, the coy charm of Annen, the stylised kitsch of Der Zigeunerbaron or the cultivated refinements of the Emperor and Blue Danube waltzes. Best, however, is Josef Strauss's sun-drenched...
