1852 in Music - 1852 Operas, 1852 Songs, La Poupee de Nuremberg, Si J'Etais Roi, Home! Sweet Home!, Kung Karls Jakt, Le Juif Errant (Paperback)

Chapters: 1852 Operas, 1852 Songs, La Poupee de Nuremberg, si J'etais Roi, Home Sweet Home , Kung Karls Jakt, le Juif Errant, La Maison Du Docteur. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: La poupee de Nuremberg (English: The Nuremberg Doll) is a one-act opera comique by Adolphe Adam to a libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Victor Arthur Rousseau de Beauplan. The story is based on E. T. A. Hoffmanns short story Der Sandmann. The work predates other stage adaptations of Hoffmann's tale, Coppelia and The Tales of Hoffmann. It was first performed in Paris at the Theatre Lyrique on 21 February 1852. Berlioz described it as "a whole emporium of waltzes, galops, pop-pourris worthy of the Nuremburg fair." It was performed nearly one hundred times at the Theatre Lyrique over the following 18 years. The scene takes place in a toy-shop at Nuremberg Cornelius the owner, has an only son, Donathan, whom he loves despite the boys stupidity, while being unjust to his orphan nephew, Miller, whom he keeps like a servant, after having misappropriated the latter's inheritance. The old miser wants to procure a wife for his son, a wife endowed with beauty and every virtue, and as he believes that such a paragon does not exist, has created a doll, which he hopes to endow with life by help of doctor Faust's magic book. He awaits a stormy night to carry this out. Meanwhile he enjoys life and is prepares to go with Donathan to a masked ball, having sent his nephew supperless to bed. When they have left Miller reappears in the garb of Mephistopheles and clapping his hands, his fiancee Bertha, a poor seamstress soon enters. Sadly she tells her lover that she is unable to go to the ball, having given all her money, which she had meant to spend on a dress, to a poor beggar-women i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24111491