Offenbach - Richter

La Leçon de Chant électromagnétique (Richter version) (1867)

Duration: 25 minutes
Bouffonnerie-musicale in one act

Libretto by Ernest Bourget; new German version by Josef Heinzelmann with musical arrangement by Caspar Richter (F,G)

Scoring
T,Bar; picc.1.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-timp.perc-strings.
Abbreviations (PDF).

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

World premiere of version
4/22/1977
Frankfurt
Company: unknown

Roles

PACIFICO TOCCATO, Italian singing teacher	Baritone
HANS SCHLAUHEIMER, a man from the countryside	Tenor

Time and Place
A theatre, a concert hall. The heyday of belcanto, ie yesterday, today and always

Synopsis
Pacifico Toccato and his sensational nervo-electro-magnetic method can in a second turn you into another Pavarotti or the next Callas: subito, attacca, senza pausa!

Moods
Comic

Subjects
Relationships, Music/Arts