STYLISTIC LANDMARKS IN THE OPERETTA THE LAND OF SMILE BY FRANZ LEHÁR. STAGE DIRECTING CONCEPT
STYLISTIC LANDMARKS IN THE OPERETTA THE LAND OF SMILE BY FRANZ LEHÁR. STAGE DIRECTING CONCEPT

Summary/Abstract: Austro-Hungarian composer and conductor, a leading personality in the genre of the 20th centuryoperetta, giving this genre a new vitality, Lehár remained one of the best-known composers of the time,alongside Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss II. His most successful operetta - The Merry Widow -has earned a prominent place in the operetta repertoire over time. The romantic operetta in 3 acts TheLand of Smile premiered on October 10, 1929, at the Metropol Theater in Berlin, with tenor RichardTauber as Sou-Chong. This performance provided a revised version of the older version of the operetta,entitled The yellow jacket, presented in 1923 in Vienna. Operetta The Land of Smile by Franz Lehár is anexceptional musical work with a rich oriental coloring with melodies and orchestras rich in meaning,breathing a very modern air with well-crafted characters, both musical and dramaturgic, being the onlyoperetta from musical literature with a sad ending (according to my personal knowledge). In mydirectorial approach, I thought that the most important thing for beeing able to stage a show, so as toexcite the audience and bring it closer to the fascinating world of the musical theater, is to listen to themusic, to understand what it express, then to pass the information through the filter of your sensitivity andreason, putting the show on stage and being in your turn a creator, who translates the language of thecomposer and the librettist in your original way.

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