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Walter Braunfels
Braunfels: Don Gil von den Grünen Hosen - op. 35
Text bearbeitet von: Walter Braunfels
Dichter der Textvorlage: Tirso de Molina
UE7376
Type: Klavierauszug
Format: 232 x 305 mm
ISBN: 9783702463984
Pages: 326
ISMN: 979-0-008-01633-2
Description
The success of The Birds and of the Te Deum inspired Braunfels
to embark upon another large-scale composition, the opera Don Gil of the Green Trousers. The libretto is based on a comedy by Tirso de Molina
in the German translation by August L. Mayer and Johannes von Guenther which
was published in Munich
in 1918.
Several of de Molina’s plays focus on intelligent and
clever women who put their fickle men to shame, induce them to repent and
return home. In Don Gil
it is Dona Juana who exposes her unfaithful fiancé in a rather turbulent plot
which culminates in four figures dressed in green trousers confronting one
another, not knowing who is hidden behind their masks.
The first (concert) performance after 1945 took place
in Munich in
2007, with David Stahl conducting the ensemble of the Gärtnerplatztheater.
More information
Type: Klavierauszug
Format: 232 x 305 mm
ISBN: 9783702463984
Pages: 326
ISMN: 979-0-008-01633-2