Composer: | Gustav Albert Lortzing |
Librettist: | Albert Lortzing |
Premiere: | 22 December 1837, Leipzig (Stadttheater) |
Language: | German |
Synopsis: | Zar und Zimmermann Synopsis |
Libretto: | Zar und Zimmermann Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Zar und Zimmermann (Tsar and Carpenter) is an opera in three acts, music by Albert Lortzing, libretto by the composer after Georg Christian Römer's Der Bürgermeister on Saarlem, oder Die zwei Peter, itself based on a French work entitled Le Bourgesmestre de Sardam, ou Les deux Pierres by Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville, Jean Toussaint Merle and Eugène Centiran de Boirie. In 1956 it was adapted into an East German film The Czar and the Carpenter.
Peter the Great | Baritone |
Peter Ivanov | Tenor |
Van Bett | Bass |
Marie | Soprano |
Marquis de Chateauneuf | Tenor |
Widow Browe | Mezzo-Soprano |
General Lefort | Bass |
Lord Syndham | Bass |
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