Saturday, January 06, 2018

Operas in Germany

This is the repertoire of my two seasons at the Ulmer Theater 1975-77.

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro $Susanna
Rossini  La Cenerentola
Lortzing  Der Wildschütz   UT only
Flotow Martha $Martha    UT only
Gounod Faust $Marguerite
Verdi La forza del destino *
Smetana The Bartered Bride $Mařenka  (mama)
Strauss II Die Fledermaus $Rosalinde
Millöcker Gasparone $Carlotta  UT only
Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades *  (Pauline)
Zeller Der Vogelhändler  $Electress   UT only
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel $Hänsel
Strauss Salome  (page)
Puccini La Fanciulla del West * [current Met production]
Kálmán Gräfin Mariza      UT only
Loewe My Fair Lady  (maid)
Honegger Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher [Joan of Arc at the stake]

*  directed by Giancarlo del Monaco

Six of these are works that I have never seen since then.  I truly loved Martha and think it should be performed more often.  All were performed in German except the arias in Figaro.

I wrote about my life there in A Day in the Life.  Some comments about our directors can be found here.  I also wrote a brief essay about a colleague from those days.  $ is for Ursula who was a lyric soprano, followed by the roles she performed.  In parentheses are the roles I performed.  She was the star.

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