Hidden wealth of lightness

by Petar PLAMENOV

10 June (Friday), 19:00

The Gypsy Baron
Original title: Der Zigeunerbaron
Operetta
Premiere
National Music Theatre
Address:
Sofia, 3 Panaiot Volov Str.
Phone: 02 943 19 79

Director: Julia Marinova
Conductor: Igor Bogdanov
Set and costumes: Eugenia Raeva
Choreographer producer: Katya Bogdanova
Chorus master: Ludmil Gorchev
Cast: Mariana Arsenova, Zornitsa Damianova, Olga Dinova, Dobrina Ikonomova, Valentina Korchakova, Julia Marinova, Nadia Pavlova, Aglika Petrova, Katerina Tuparova, Denitsa Shopova, Marcho Apostolov, Hrisimir Damyanov, Ventsislav Dinov,  Stefan Petkov, Penyo Pirozov, Bogomil Spirov, Cyril Havezov, with the special participation of children from the Ballet School Masha Ilieva;



Operetta Gypsy Baron is a landmark piece of National Music Theatre because it is the first major staging, which opens the new season in 1948, which is National Music Theatre is restored, after the establishment in February 1918. The new staging is the seventh in a row on stage conversion of National Music Theatre Stefan Macedonsky. This title is invariably present in the poster of all the world major music scenes. Virtuoso music combines lyrical, funny and serious moments, large ensembles and choral scenes. A ballet included additional numbers - Kaiser Waltz and Czardas approved Viennese style of classical operetta.

The Gypsy Baron /Die Zigeunerbaron/ is one of the most popular, loved by the audience and world-famous works of its genre; it is a brilliant three-act operetta composed by Austrian composer master of waltz Johann Strauss II. The libretto is written by Ignatz Schnitzer in German based on "Saffi" by Maurice Jocai. It was premiered in Vienna, Theater an der Wien, on October 24, 1885. The Gypsy Baron is still performed today. The orchestral pieces are also well recognized, including Schatz-Walzer, op.418 (Treasure Waltz), and the polkas Brautschau, op.417, and Kriegsabenteuer, op.419 (War Adventures).



In no other work did the composer come so close to his dream of writing a comic opera. “The Gypsy Baron” is truly a stylistic juxtaposition of comic opera and operetta, unparalleled in the Viennese Waltz King’s ouvre. Strauss skillfully contrasts his two love-smitten leads and their lyrical duets with the pig-breeder Zuspán, one of the genre’s most enduring characters.

Strauss’s “Gypsy Baron” is the story of an unconventional love prevailing over social barriers. Sándor Barinkay, exiled because of the crimes of his father, an alleged embezzler, has been roaming the world since his father’s death. Now rehabilitated, Barinkay returns to his family’s decaying estate, much to the chagrin of many locals. Pig farmer Zuspán has meanwhile occupied the property, and is by no means willing to give up the land without a fight. Barinkay begins courting Zuspán’s daughter Arsena in order to avoid a boundary dispute. Arsena says he must be a baron, no less, to be worthy of her hand in marriage, a condition he thinks he has met when the Gypsies living on his property recognize him as their lord. But all he earns is her contempt. A defiant Barinkay thus marries the Gypsy girl Saffi. When it turns out that she’s actually the daughter of a prince and her relations to Barinkay do not befit her station, their marriage looks doomed to failure. Barinkay goes off to war. Two years pass until the two meet again, in Vienna once the war is over…


 

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