''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 including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

, originally with a prelude and two acts, by composer

Franz Lehár Franz Lehár ( ; ; 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 and career L ...

. It used a German language

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Viktor Léon Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Senica, Slovakia – 23 February 1940, Vienna, Austria) was a well-known Jewish librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic ...

and

Leo Stein Leo Stein (May 11, 1872 – July 29, 1947) was an American art collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny City (now in Pittsburgh), the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings. Educatio ...

, and premiered on 20 January 1904 at the

Carltheater The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna. It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31 (at that time called Jägerzeile). It was the successor to the Leopoldstädter Theater. After a series of financial difficulties, that theater had ...

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

Theater an der Wien The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served prim ...

with

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...

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 Mizzi Günther (8 February 1879 – 18 March 1961) was a Bohemian-Viennese operetta soprano. Günther was born in Warnsdorf, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). Her debut was in 1897 in Hermannstadt, now Sibiu, the part of the Austro-Hungarian Em ...

, and

tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...

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

Michail Jurowski Michail Vladimirovich Jurowski (; 25 December 1945 – 19 March 2022) was a Russian conductor who worked internationally, based in Germany for most of his career. He was particularly interested in the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, in concerts an ...

and the

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (''Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin'') is a German symphony orchestra based in Berlin. In Berlin, the orchestra gives concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin and at the Berliner Philharmonie. The orchestra has a ...

(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 *March 15, 1945, Vienna; Conductor:

Max Schönherr Max Schönherr (23 November 190313 December 1984) was an Austrian composer, arranger and conductor. Biography Born in Maribor, Schönherr studied in Graz under Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvar and was a composer of light orchestral music in Vi ...

; Vienna Radio Orchestra and Chorus, Liesl Andergast, Henry Herze, Anton Dermota, Franz Borsos, Fred Liewehr, Lizzi Holzschuh; CPO 777 029-2

References

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