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FULL Der entwendete Taler (Aichinger) Festival NACHTS 2 Vienna 2009 sirene Operntheater
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Der entwendete Taler
- Composer: Aichinger Oskar
- Libretto: Kristine Tornquist based on Leo Perutz Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Expedithalle der Brotfabrik, Wien, Austria
- Recorded: May 29, 2009
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Dimitrij Solowjow. Günther Strahlegger. Leon Kusztrich. Raimund Klebel. Rudolf Brunnhuber
- Conductor: François-Pierre Descamps
- Orchestra: ensemble on_line / PHACE
- Stage Director: Kristine Tornquist
- Stage Designer: Jakob Scheid
- Costume Designer: Markus Kuscher
- Lighting Designer: Edgar Aichinger
Information about the Recording
- Published by: sirene
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
00:00 Der entwendete Taler
02:18 Das Schicksal (Beginn der Oper)
04:59 Der finstere Wald
12:02 Der Grosse und der Furchtbare
16:47 Der entwendete Taler und die Flucht
20:35 Rabbi Löw
22:40 Die Unruhe Rudolfs II.
25:38 Der Weg des Schicksals (Carpa Theater)
31:51 Beim Altkleiderhändler
38:40 Mordechai Meisl
45:21 Der Meerestiefe gleich ist Gottes Recht und Ordnung
49:00 Applaus
The young Archduke Rudolf II gets lost on his ride without an entourage. In the middle of the forest he meets two giants by three flashing piles of gold, silver and copper. He asks the ghosts who the treasure belongs to and learns that everything is destined for the Jew Mordechai Meisl, the future chamberlain of the emperor. That annoys the young prince. He takes a silver coin from the pile. Before the ghost disappears, he is told that he can keep the taler, but will not find peace until the taler is with him to whom it belongs. In the following days he was pursued by misfortune until he decided to get rid of the illegally appropriated thaler. But he cannot track down the Jew Mordechai Meisl in order to return the thaler, nobody knows him. So he throws the thaler from the stone bridge into the Vltava. He falls into a boat that is just passing through below. The fisherman puts the taler in his coat pocket. Rudolf decides to pursue the thaler. A stranger buys the fisherman’s coat to visit his lover disguised as a fishmonger. On the morning after the night of love, the coat gets stuck in the pear tree over which the lover climbs out of the garden. A carter takes the coat and taler and sells it at the used clothes dealer. Rudolf takes a seat at the used clothes dealer and waits. Finally a little boy arrives who, for a penny, is allowed to search the pockets of his clothes and keep everything in them. He finds the thaler. When Rudolf asked what he would buy with it, the boy replied that he would not spend the thaler on himself, because one thaler can easily become two. And he runs away happily. Rudolf learns that the boy’s name is Mordechai Meisl