''Der Göttergatte'' (''The Divine Husband'') is an

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

, originally with a prelude and two acts, by composer

Franz Lehár Franz Lehár ( ; hu, Lehár Ferenc ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe''). Life ...

. It used a German language

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Viktor Léon Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 23 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He col ...

and

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, and premiered on 20 January 1904 at the

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in Vienna. The work was revised as ''Die ideale Gattin'' (''The Ideal Wife''), this time in three acts, with a text by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald, after ''Die Zwillingsschwester'' by

Ludwig Fulda Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda (July 7, 1862 – March 7, 1939) was a German playwright and poet, with a strong social commitment. He lived with Moritz Moszkowski's first wife Henriette, née Chaminade, younger sister of pianist and composer Cécile ...

and given on 11 October 1913 at the

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with

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Louise Kartousch Louise Kartousch (17 August 1886 – 13 February 1964) was an Austrian character dancer, opera and operetta soprano. Life Born in Linz, Kartousch attended the music school in Linz and was trained in Vienna. She had children's roles in Linz an ...

and Mizzi Günther, and

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

Hubert Marischka Hubert Marischka (27 August 1882 – 4 December 1959), brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter. Career Marischka was born in Brunn am Gebirge, the son of Jiří (or Johann) Marisch ...

and Ernst Tautenhayn. The work was re-revised as ''Die Tangokönigin'' (''The Tango Queen'') for the Apollo Theater in Vienna on 9 September 1921.

Roles

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(soprano) *

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(tenor) *

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(tenor)

Recordings

The overture to ''Der Göttergatte'' has been recorded by

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and the

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(CD CPO 999891). A recording was made in 1913 or 1914 of the original cast of ''Die ideale Gattin'' (Louise Kartousch, Ernst Tautenhayn, Mizzi Günther, Hubert Marischka) performing: Hamplemann-Duett (Kartousch, Tautenhayn); Rauch-Duett (Marischka, Tautenhayn); Wenn meine Gattin so küssen könnt'! (Günther, Marischka); Nur mit dir allein (Günther, Marischka); Meine Gemahlin ist auf kurze Zeit verreist, Marsch (Günther, Kartousch, Marischka, Tautenhayn); Küss mich (Günther).Operadis discography, accessed 5 January 2011
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References

Notes Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gottergatte, Der 1904 operas German-language operettas Operas by Franz Lehár Operas