FREDERICA
Music by Franz Lehár: Book & Lyrics by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz
Löhner. English version by Adrian Ross and Harry S. Pepper Metropol-Theater, Berlin - 4 October 1928
Palace Theatre, London 9 September, 1930
Imperial Theatre, New York - 4 February, 1937
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| Adaptation by Bernard Dunn, Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Hanmer for
amateur performance.
This adaptation of the magical operetta of Lehár has been performed
previously only professionally. Now the book has been remodelled but the
original English lyrics are retained. it tells the true story of the younger
days of Goethe, Germany's most famous poet, and his tragic love for Frederica,
daughter of the Vicar of Sesenheim. Easily staged with only two sets,
the operetta's score is one of Lehár's loveliest and includes the
well-known "Oh Maiden, My Maiden".
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| Musical Numbers:
- Love Will Kiss and Ride Away
- Little Roses, Little Flowers
- Why Did You Kiss My Heart Awake?
- God Has Sent a Lovely Day
- I Love Him So
- Wonderful, So Wonderful
- Wayside Rose
- A Heart as Pure as Gold
- Oh Maiden, My Maiden
- Whenever Woman Holds Her Sway
- I Live For Your Love
- Maid of Alsace
- Rhineland Dance
- With Maidens We Are Dashing
- My Heart Lies In Your Hands
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| Principals: 8 female, 10 male
Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Johann Jakob Brion, rector of Sesenheim
Magdalena, his wife
Solomea, Friederike, their daughters
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, a law student
Friedrich Leoppold Weyland, a theological student
Franz Lerse, Georg Engelbach, law students
Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling, John Meyer, medical students
Captain Karl Ludwig von Knebel, tutor to the princes of the Court
of Weimar
Madame Schöll
Hortense, her daughter
Madame Hahn
Liselotte, her daughter
Dorothée, Ännchen, Babette, her friends
Country folk, boys and girls, gentlemen and ladies of society, Madame
Schöll's servants. |
| Instrumentation:
flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon,
2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, percussion, harp, strings
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