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Arias from the Operetta ";Lottery for Husbands" in Austria
2012-08-16
Soprano Lavinia Dames performed two arias from Karol Szymanowski’s operetta "Lottery for Husbands" on 20 July in Ossiach as part of the Carinthischer Sommer festival accompanied by the Junge Philharmonie Wien. Interestingly, they were heard in German as „Als Mägdelein in jungen Jahren…” (When I was very young ...) and „Das Herz schwingt frei im Höhenflug…“ (order the heart ...) in a translation by Dorota Krzywicka-Kaindel. KarolSzymanowski had the idea to write an operetta in 1908 whilst staying together with Grzegorz Fitelberg in Vienna. Vienna was then fascinated by this light and pleasant musical genre, which is why in "Lottery" the young composer saw a relatively quick and easy opportunity to improve his enfeebled financial position. Demand for operetta in Vienna seemed to be limitless, and not just there - operetta reigned also in Berlin, Warsaw and Lviv. And it was in Lviv that Szymanowski found the author of the libretto, Julian Maszyński (son of composer Piotr Maszyński), who appeared under the pseudonym Krzewiński. Both men understood each other perfectly; within a few days Krzewiński had prepared two projects. In the Summer of 1908, Szymanowski composed the operetta whose initial title was “Grand Prize”, and only later – “Lottery for Husbands”. But when he went to Warsaw in Autumn, hoping his unequalled friend Fitelberg would help him to work on the score, he met sad disappointment. The Warsaw Philharmonic had entrusted Fitelberg to give concerts in the season 1908/1909. Szymanowski, left to work by himself on the operetta, did not give up. On 28 October 1909 he wrote the last page of the 396 page score. The final title was "Lottery for Husbands (Fiancé No. 69)."
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