Der tapfere Soldat
(»The Chocolate Soldier«)
Operetta
Text by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson
with motives from Bernhard Shaws »Arms and the Man«
Music by Oscar Straus
Premiered June 14, 2018
Age recommendation 13 years and above
145 Minuten, one interval
Boredom reigns in the house of the Bulgarian Colonel Popoff. The head of the household and his future son-in-law are at war against the Serbs, and daughter Nadina patriotically longs for the victorious return of the two war heroes. But when the absconding Swiss businessman Bumerli arrives out of the blue in her bedroom, eats her chocolate and expresses a very different aspect of bravery, the soldier's daughter's image of heroism is shaken to the core…
In his military farce »Arms and the Man«, written in 1894, George Bernard Shaw mercilessly mocked the glorification of hollow heroic pathos. Oscar Straus and his librettists parodied the parody in 1908 in the operetta »Der tapfere Soldat«. Rejected at its premiere in Imperial Vienna as being provocative, it became an evergreen for decades in London and New York as »The Chocolate Soldier« and had a major influence on the development of the American musical. After premieres in 1909 and 1961 in Gärtnerplatz, the eminent director Peter Konwitschny reinterprets the subtly intelligent piece with delightful music as he makes his house début.
Cast
Choir of the Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz
Orchestra of the Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz
Performances
Am 3. Juni verrät Ihnen Dramaturg Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz gemeinsam mit beteiligten Künstlerinnen und Künstlern Hintergründiges zum Stück, zu den Autoren und zur Entstehung der Produktion, garniert mit vielen musikalischen Beispielen!
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