Description
Millocker: Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) / Operetta in three acts by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée / Symphony Orchestra Burgenland / Choir of the Mörbisch Lake Festival / Dramaturgy: Wolfgang Fritz / DVD
Format: PAL
Run time: 103 Minutes
UPC: 9120056506330
- Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 9.84 x 0.59 x 5.51 inches; 3.17 Ounces
- Director : __
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 28 minutes
- Actors : Zehe, dos Santos, Linda Plech, Zink, Milev
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Videoland
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on Les noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. However, the librettists added the element of combining love and politics to the French comedy plots. It premiered in Vienna in 1882.
Originally rejected by Johann Strauss II, the libretto for Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) was then offered to Carl Millöcker. The operetta premiered in December 1882 and became an enduringly popular international triumph, making the composer wealthy, and allowing him to retire from conducting. SYNOPSIS:Naples, 1840. A rascally Colonel in the Austrian Army of Occupation plans revenge on a girl who has rebuffed him - Laura, one of the two daughters of an impoverished Italian Countess. He releases two young prisoners on condition they masquerade as a wealthy Prince and his secretary. The ‘Prince’ has to win Laura’s hand, and then humiliate her. How the young men fall in love with the two girls and completely turn the tables on the Colonel is splendidly told in this tuneful operetta.
