Der Vogelhändler (The Bird Seller) is an operetta in three acts by Carl Zeller with a libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held based on Varin and Biéville's Ce que deviennent les roses.
A tuneful operetta, Adam's Act 2 aria Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr was popularized by a recording by the soprano Elisabeth Schumann.
It was first performed on 10 January 1891 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna with the celebrated Viennese actor and singer, Alexande...
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Der Vogelhändler (The Bird Seller) is an operetta in three acts by Carl Zeller with a libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held based on Varin and Biéville's Ce que deviennent les roses.
A tuneful operetta, Adam's Act 2 aria Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr was popularized by a recording by the soprano Elisabeth Schumann.
It was first performed on 10 January 1891 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna with the celebrated Viennese actor and singer, Alexander Girardi, in the title role. It also played at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in 1895 and at the Casino Theatre in New York in 1891 (as The Tyrolean).
The setting is historical fiction with artistic license, in 18th century lands around Heidelberg, Bavaria, which then constituted a district of the Holy Roman Empire governed by a Prince known as the Palatinate Elector. The story is reset in a fictitious estate of the husband of the Electress, Princess Marie.
Der Vogelhändler is a bucolic comedy, set in the 18th-century Rhineland ...
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