| 词条 | Der Zar lässt sich photographieren | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = {{lang|de|Der Zar lässt sich photographieren}} | type = Opera buffa | composer = Kurt Weill | image = Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0119, Kurt Weill.jpg | caption = The composer in 1932 | image_upright = | translated_name = The Tsar Has his Photograph Taken | description = Zeitoper | librettist = Georg Kaiser | language = German | based_on = | premiere_date = {{Start date|1928|02|18|df=y}} | premiere_location = Neues Theater, Leipzig }}Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (The Tsar Has his Photograph Taken) is an opera buffa in one act by Kurt Weill, op. 21. The German libretto was written by Georg Kaiser, and Weill composed the music in 1927. It is a Zeitoper, a genre of music theatre which used contemporary settings and characters, satiric plots which often include technology and machinery. Musically the Zeitoper genre tends to be eclectic and borrow from Jazz. The genre has practically disappeared from the world's opera houses. Historically the Zeitoper came to an abrupt end with the Nazi period,[1] and after the war the cultural institutions were perhaps hesitant to return to the lighter, often decadent and comic operas written before the holocaust changed the artistic perspective. This conjecture is supported by the statistical fact that of all of Weill's, Schönberg's, Hindemith's and Krenek's works - it is these very shorter, satirical Zeitoper works that are no longer performed.[2] Performance historyThe opera was first performed at the Neues Theater in Leipzig on 18 February 1928. Weill had intended it to be a companion piece for Der Protagonist, though it was staged at its premiere with Niccola Spinelli's A basso porto (1894). Der Zar lässt sich photographieren and Der Protagonist were then performed together at Altenburg on 25 March of the same year. Recent performances of the work include the Guildhall in London (Producers Stephen Medcalf and Martin Lloyd-Evans, Conductor Clive Timms, 1997) and the Stockholm Royal Opera, 2000 (Conductors Dmitri Slobodeniouk and David Searle, Producer Knut Hendriksen). The first American performance took place on 27 October 1949, at the Juilliard School, New York.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} The first professional performance in America was at The Santa Fe Opera in August 1993, with George Manahan conducting.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} The first performance in the United Kingdom was at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London on 12 March 1986.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} Roles
SynopsisPlace: a photographic studio in Paris Time: 1914 An offstage male chorus chants the opera's title (and comments on the action from time to time). Angèle (the proprietress) and her male assistants, one of them a boy, have little work to do, but a telephone-call brings news that the Tsar wishes to have his photograph taken. A large box-camera is set up, but, before the Tsar arrives, four members of a gang of revolutionaries burst in. They bind and gag Angèle and her staff. Three of the gang dress up as Angèle, her assistant and the boy, and the leader of the gang, proclaiming that the revolution is imminent, conceals a gun in the camera. It will fire at the Tsar when the bulb used for taking the photograph is squeezed. The captives are put in another room, the leader hides, and the Tsar is announced. The Tsar is dressed in a summer suit and accompanied only by an equerry. He wants an informal portrait rather than an official one. He is attracted by the False Angèle and asks to be left alone with her. She is keen to take the photograph (i.e. to "shoot" him), but he flirts with her and offers to take her photograph first. She manages to avoid being accidentally shot by the Tsar, and is finally about to press the bulb to shoot him when the equerry re-appears to report that the police have followed some assassins to the studio. The false Angèle, realising that the game is up, puts on a seductive gramophone record (the "Tango Angèle") and asks the Tsar to avert his eyes while she undresses. She and the rest of the gang escape through the window just before the police arrive with the real Angèle and her assistants, who had previously themselves escaped and raised the alarm. The gun is removed from the camera, and the Tsar, though dismayed that the real Angèle is not as attractive as the false one, finally, as the chorus again says, "has his photograph taken". MusicThe opera's music is continuous, rather than arranged in "numbers". There are big orchestral climaxes at dramatic moments but also some popular-music forms, such as the foxtrot which accompanies the entrance of the Tsar. The "Tango Angèle" was specially recorded for the first performance, and is one of the earliest examples of pre-recorded music being used on stage in a dramatic work.[3] It was Weill's first best-selling recording. Recordings
ReferencesNotes1. ^Michael Haas, Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis, Yale University Press, 2013 Sources2. ^Cook, Susan, p. ? 3. ^Chris Macklin, Programme note for performances of the opera at the University of York, 17–18 March 2007.
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