FULL DER GRAF VON LUXEMBURG Yoshkar-Ola 2023 Alexander Stolbov, Anna Fomicheva
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Der Graf von Luxemburg
- Composer: Lehar Franz
- Libretto: Alfred Willner, Robert Bodanzky, Leo Stein Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Mari State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
- Recorded: March 4, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Alexander Stolbov, Anna Fomicheva
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Sergey Shepelev
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: culture.ru
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Synopsis by Wikpedia:
The operetta takes place in Paris in the bohemian milieu in the present of the composer, at the turn of the century.
Prince Basil Basilowitsch has fallen madly in love with the singer Angèle Didier and has been secretly promoting and observing her for a long time. Now he desperately thinks of a way to marry her, since he is forbidden to lead a commoner bride down the aisle.
The impoverished bon vivant Count René von Luxemburg comes at just the right time for him. Basil proposes a deal to René: for half a million, the Count should make the singer his pro forma wife and divorce her again after three months, during which time he should go into hiding in Paris. The woman would then be in the nobility, which would enable him, Basil, to marry himself.
Count René accepts the offer. The wedding ceremony is performed in a way that hides the bride from the earl’s view, and so she remains completely unknown to him.
The agreed three months have almost passed when Count René accidentally ends up in the conservatory of the singer’s palace, where she is currently performing. He falls in love with her straight away and Angèle also takes a liking to Count René, who introduces himself to her as “Baron von Reval”.
When Angèle speaks contemptuously of the Count of Luxembourg who allowed himself to be seduced into a sham marriage for money, Count René tells her who he is; and didn’t she act similarly because she could only become a princess as a “countess”? They have nothing to reproach one another with; their love endures – after all, Count René has pledged his word to Prince Basil; neither Angèle’s mockery nor her kiss can help him over that.
But the operetta solution is inevitable. Prince Basil has to marry an ancient countess by order of the tsar, and Count René gets his confiscated property back.