Rolf Liebermann
Die Schule der Frauen
Short instrumentation: 1 1 1 1 - 2 1 1 0 - timp, perc, hpsd, str - in the auditorium (ad lib.): 0 0 2 1 - 2 1 1 1 - behind the scene: hn
Duration: 90'
Bearbeitet von: Heinrich Strobel
Libretto von: Heinrich Strobel
Übersetzer: Pierre Angel, Hans Weigel, Elisabeth Montagu
Roles:
Poquelin
baritone<BR>Arnolphe
bass-baritone<BR>Agnes
coloratura soprano (Soubrette)<BR>Horace
tenor<BR>Georgette
alto<BR>Oronte
bass
Instrumentation details:
1·1·1·1 - 2·1·1·0 - timp., perc. - hpsd. - str. - im auditorium (ad libitum): 0·0·2·1 - 2·1·1·1 - behind the scene: horn
Liebermann - Die Schule der Frauen
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Rolf Liebermann
Liebermann: Die Schule der Frauen (The School of Women)Type: Libretto/Textbuch
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Work introduction
The storyline of Rolf
Liebermann’s the 3-act opera buffa Die Schule
der Frauen (1954–55), based on a libretto by Heinrich Strobel, was inspired
by the French theatrical comedy L’école
des femmes by Molière. Molière himself (alias Poquelin) directs the action
in this comedy, commenting on the modern staging of his creation, intervening where
necessary and even slipping into the role of a minor character. Liebermann’s
music has an astonishing vitality and fusion of baroque motor rhythms and
counterpoint, of expansive late-romantic melodiousness and harmony interwoven with
dodecaphony.