The Opera Goers' Complete Guide; Comprising Two Hundred And Nine Opera Plots With Musical Numbers And Casts
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Libretto by Von Holtei. Cast: Father Renner, innkeeper — Basso. Veronica, his wife — Mezzo-soprano. Anton, their son — Tenor. Marie, their foster daughter — Soprano. Rose — Soprano. Rich- ard, forester — Baritone. Cassian and Lazarus, smugglers — Tenor and Basso. Place, in the Silesian mountains. Time, 1830. First production at Berlin in 1833 at the old Koenigstadt Theatre. Act I. Scene in the Silesian mountains. Rose is on the stage ; Renner, Veronica, Marie and Anton approach, and after a pra...yer of thanksgiving depart, leaving Rose alone. (Aria : "Though the heart is desolate.") Cassian appears. (Song: "Life shall be crowned with boughs of spring.") He attacks Rose, and Anton, hearing her screams, returns to protect her, though opposed by his mother, who sep- arates them. She has heard that her husband has also be- OPERA GOERS' COMPLETE GUIDE 103 friended the girl, and that he "is not averse to her marriage with Anton. Veronica desires that her foster daughter Marie and the forester Richard shall become man and wife.
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