Albert Lortzing [SEP] voice type
, and turning their amateur passion into a profession. The young Lortzing's first stage appearance was at the age of 12, entertaining the audience with comic poems during the interval in the "Kornhaus" at the Freiburg Münster. From 1817, the Lortzing family were part of Josef Derossi ensemble in the Rhineland, treading the boards at Bonn, Düsseldorf, Barmen and Aachen. Albert Lortzing became an audience favourite, playing the roles of a youthful lover, a country boy and bon vivant, sometimes also singing small tenor or baritone
Der Wildschütz
Der Wildschütz oder Die Stimme der Natur ("The Poacher, or The Voice of Nature") is a German "Komische Oper", or comic opera, in three acts by Albert Lortzing from a libretto by the composer adapted from the comedy "Der Rehbock, oder Die schuldlosen Schuldbewussten" by August von Kotzebue. It had its premiere at the Stadttheater in Leipzig on 31 December 1842.
Synopsis.
Synopsis Act 1.
At the village hotel, the schoolmaster Baculus is celebrating his engagement to Gretchen