Company

Singer

Soprano

Susanne Langbein

Electress Marie

Elizabeth Wiles

Mezzo-soprano

Astrid Vosberg

Adelaide

Bass

Daniel Böhm

Baron Weps

Tenor

Peter Floch

Count Stanislaus

Martin Mairinger

Dirk Audehm

Suffle

Wurmchen

Roman Pichler

Adam

Daniel Szeili

Monika Hügel

Christel

Indira Hechavarría

Baritone

Schneck

Spoken

Lisana Werno

Jette

Annika Zittel

Kaiserslautern

Germany

Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

Olivier Pols

Conductor

Stage director

Thomas Winter

Costume designer

TOTO

Set designer

Choreographer

Elena Iglesias Galán

Dramaturge

Hannah Spielvogel

Chorus master

Gerhard Polifka

Orchestra

Choir

Pfalztheater

Großes Haus

Chor des Pfalztheaters

Orchester des Pfalztheaters

German

Der Vogelhändler

Character/Vocal

Public

Operetta

The Bird Seller

Approved

copyright Hans-Jürgen Brehm-Seufert
Adam - Daniel Szeili

Dasselbe gilt für Monika Hügel, die sich am Pfalztheater seit zwölf Jahren als ebenso vielseitige wie ausdrucksstarke Interpretin aller Gattungen des Musiktheaters profiliert. Ihre klare Sopranstimme changiert überzeugend zwischen lyrischen und schwereren Lagen, so dass die gar nicht naive Christel von der Post gleichermaßen naive Verliebtheit und durchtriebene Kampfbereitschaft um den krachledernen Naturburschen Adam an den Tag legt.

„Der Vogelhändler“ am Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

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For a Viennese operetta the composer Carl Zeller and his authors have chosen an almost exotic location: the Rhine Palatinate in the early 18th century at the time of the electors.
The bird dealer Adam from Tyrol would love to marry Christel from the post office, but he is too poor for that. Therefore Christel would like to ask the elector for the vacant position of the menagerie director for her Adam. She does not notice that in the intimate pavilion she is not meeting the elector himself, but Count Stanislaus, who poses as such. When Adam found out about the alleged tête-à-tête with the elector, who was notorious as a womanizer, he renounced Christel in his jealousy and directly courted the peasant girl Marie. But this is now none other than the disguised Electress who wants to find out about her unfaithful husband. -
As it should be in a good operetta, in the end all the confusions of love dissolve in good pleasure - and of course the bird dealer and the postwoman become a couple!
Carl Zeller's “The Bird Dealer” - premiered in Vienna in 1891 - is one of the great titles of the classic operetta era and is still one of the pillars of the repertoire today.
The composer was actually a civil servant in the Austrian Ministry of Education, and music was initially a part-time hobby. With his masterpiece “The Bird Trader” he has succeeded in creating an operetta full of charm and wit, which is characterized by an impressive wealth of melodies, sometimes in a folk tone, then again in representative ensembles. Titles such as “Happy Palatinate, Gott erhalt's”, “Griaß enk Gott, all together”, “Do you give yourself roses in Tyrol”, “I am Christel from the Post” or the parodic “I am the vice dean” are popular Evergreens of the genus have become.

Der Vogelhändler by Carl Zeller, From Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (2022/2022), Directed by Thomas Winter,, Conductor Olivier Pols

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

Olivier Pols

Thomas Winter

Cast

Susanne Langbein

Elizabeth Wiles

Astrid Vosberg

Daniel Böhm

Peter Floch

Martin Mairinger

Dirk Audehm

Astrid Vosberg

Roman Pichler

Daniel Szeili

Monika Hügel

Indira Hechavarría

Dirk Audehm

Lisana Werno

Annika Zittel

Dirk Audehm

Crew

TOTO

TOTO

Elena Iglesias Galán

Hannah Spielvogel

Gerhard Polifka

Ensemble

Chor des Pfalztheaters

Orchester des Pfalztheaters

Program, About & Synopsis

Reviews

Photos 2

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 16