FREDERICA

Music by Franz Lehár: Book & Lyrics by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner. English version by Adrian Ross and Harry S. Pepper

Metropol-Theater, Berlin - 4 October 1928
Palace Theatre, London 9 September, 1930
Imperial Theatre, New York - 4 February, 1937

Adaptation by Bernard Dunn, Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Hanmer for amateur performance.

Synopsis

This adaptation of the magical operetta of Lehár has been performed previously only professionally. Now the book has been remodelled but the original English lyrics are retained. it tells the true story of the younger days of Goethe, Germany's most famous poet, and his tragic love for Frederica, daughter of the Vicar of Sesenheim. Easily staged with only two sets, the operetta's score is one of Lehár's loveliest and includes the well-known "Oh Maiden, My Maiden".

Musical Numbers:

Love Will Kiss and Ride Away
Little Roses, Little Flowers
Why Did You Kiss My Heart Awake?
God Has Sent a Lovely Day
I Love Him So
Wonderful, So Wonderful
Wayside Rose
A Heart as Pure as Gold
Oh Maiden, My Maiden
Whenever Woman Holds Her Sway
I Live For Your Love
Maid of Alsace
Rhineland Dance
With Maidens We Are Dashing
My Heart Lies In Your Hands

Principals:

8 female, 10 male

Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Johann Jakob Brion, rector of Sesenheim
Magdalena, his wife
Solomea, Friederike, their daughters
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, a law student
Friedrich Leoppold Weyland, a theological student
Franz Lerse, Georg Engelbach, law students
Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling, John Meyer, medical students
Captain Karl Ludwig von Knebel, tutor to the princes of the Court of Weimar
Madame Schöll
Hortense, her daughter
Madame Hahn
Liselotte, her daughter
Dorothée, Ännchen, Babette, her friends

Country folk, boys and girls, gentlemen and ladies of society, Madame Schöll's servants.

Instrumentation:

flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, percussion, harp, strings