This is an excellent spoof/satire of all things American with a side swipe at impoverished European royalty and the operetta genre to boot. Deborah Riedel is absolutely magnificent both in her acting and her singing. Her intentional horribly bad American accent in German is absolutely hilarious and is exactly the way so many Americans speak German although never so completely and swiftly. Yet when she sings, her German, of course, is impeccable and unaccented for, after all, she is an opera singer and will go only so far to dumb down. Unfortunately the way she and the Americans are portrayed is still accurate today – as boorish, rich, conceited, arrogant, indifferent to European ways and to European culture, embracing poor taste in art and music = the “ugly” American.
Endrik Wottrich has become one of Germany’s premier tenors specializing in Wagner opera and, while his voice does usually carry a certain characteristic very slight back of the throat sound, here he intentionally adopts an “Hungarian” style of singing producing a noticeable glottal gap sound. I must marvel at his ability not just to sing this way but to do it relatively consistently. But rest assured this is really NOT his normal voice.
One of the charms of this operetta is the mixing of the languages which adds greatly to the overall fun and cleverness. Watch the Covent Garden DVD of Die Fledermaus with Kiri Te Kanawa and Ben Luxon in a grand, wild ride of mixing English, German, Italian and French for a thoroughly enjoyable and exciting time. Mixing languages can lead to some humorous and slightly inapt usage – For example, at one point someone tells Mary in English, “You are in the picture”, which is the literal translation of the German expression – “Du bist im Bilde”. Yet we English speakers do not say “IN the picture” to mean we understand something. We say “You GET the picture”. So here the German authors literally translated the German saying into English but by so doing actually did NOT capture the precise and meaningful English expression. Knowing more than one language is fun and even educational.
Track List:
Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953)
Die Herzogin von Chicago – operetta in two acts
CD 1:
01. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.1 Introduktion [0:01:58.53]
02. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.1 Dialog [0:05:52.23]
03. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.2 Wienerlied [0:05:14.15]
04. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.2 Dialog [0:01:19.43]
05. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.3 Wir Ladies aus Amerika [0:04:28.66]
06. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.3 Dialog [0:02:43.33]
07. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.4 Finale – Amerika will er nicht? [0:02:18.31]
08. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.4 Finale Pass auf, alter Primás, bist du ein Mann! [0:03:24.38]
09. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.4 Finale Alle Zigeuner her zu mir [0:05:49.08]
10. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.4 Finale Nun, was sagen Sie zu dieser Tanzart, Gnädigste? [0:02:25.42]
11. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Vorspiel – Nr.4 Finale – Fraussen sind sie! [0:02:25.54]
12. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.5 Hymne [0:01:45.50]
13. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.5 Dialog [0:01:20.51]
14. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.5a Marschlied [0:03:05.01]
15. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Entr’acte (Nr.4a) [0:02:24.20]
16. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Entr’acte Dialog [0:02:16.18]
17. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.6 Duett [0:04:03.17]
18. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.6 Dialog [0:02:50.66]
19. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.7 Duett [0:04:46.32]
20. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.7 Dialog [0:01:25.55]
21. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.8 Musikalische Szene und Duett [0:03:14.10]
22. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.8 Komm, Prinzchen, komm her [0:04:08.07]
23. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.8 Dialog [0:01:58.42]
24. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.9 Duett [0:03:37.01]
25. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Nr.10 Finale I [0:02:51.51]
CD 2:
01. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Wollen gütigst verzeihen, Gnädigste, mein Inkognito [0:01:55.26]
02. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Geliebte Anwesende! [0:00:43.48]
03. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Welch Eine Sensation! [0:01:56.62]
04. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Isten veled! Isten veled! [0:02:25.19]
05. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Bitte, bitte, ist gern geschehen [0:01:43.39]
06. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Das war’n noch Zeiten! [0:02:20.72]
07. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Erste Akt – Vienna Musik, Vienna Musik [0:01:54.64]
08. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.11a Introduktion [0:00:42.65]
09. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.11a Dialog [0:00:46.65]
10. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.11b Lied und Tanz. Ein kleiner Slowfox mit Mary [0:03:35.48]
11. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.11b Dialog [0:00:43.47]
12. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.12 Spielduett [0:03:01.10]
13. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.12 Tanz [0:00:49.05]
14. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.12 Aber Walzer [0:06:08.40]
15. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.12 Dialog [0:03:22.69]
16. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.13 Ensemble Szene [0:00:50.53]
17. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.13 Dialog [0:01:36.63]
18. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.13 Hoheit Prinzessin, das ist wirklich lieb von Ihnen [0:01:58.42]
19. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.14 Duett [0:03:24.36]
20. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.14 Dialog [0:02:31.26]
21. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.15 Duett [0:01:08.06]
22. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.15 Wenn der Sonne Flammenschein abends am Missouri glüht [0:06:14.41]
23. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.15 Dialog [0:01:58.46]
24. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.16 Finale II Seid umschlungen, Millionen [0:04:18.51]
25. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.16 Finale II Meiner innigst geliebten Kusine [0:02:09.30]
26. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.16 Finale II Ihr Ladies aus der Neuen Welt [0:01:27.23]
27. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Zweiter Akt – Nr.16 Finale II Haltung, Mary! Kopf hoch! [0:03:04.61]
28. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.16b Introduktion [0:00:17.69]
29. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.16b Dialog [0:03:20.70]
30. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.16c Reminiszenz [0:02:41.53]
31. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.16cDialog [0:01:50.47]
32. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.17 Duett [0:02:37.15]
33. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.17 Dialog [0:00:59.71]
34. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.17 Tanz [0:00:32.46]
35. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.17 Hoheit – da ist sie – mit ihrem geheimnissvollen Begleiter [0:02:30.41]
36. Die Herzogin von Chicago, operetta – Nachspiel – Nr.18 Slussgesang [0:01:08.68]
Performers:
Endrik Wottrich
Monica Groop
Deborah Riedel
Brett Polegato
Pär Lindskog
Volker Hor
Reinhart Ginzel
Peter Menzel
Egnert Junghanns
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Schöneberger Sängerknaben
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Richard Bonynge – conductor
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