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Schön ist die Welt (Lehár, Franz) This work has been identified as being in the public domain in Canada, as well as countries where the copyright term is life+50 or life+70 years (including all EU countries). However, this work is probably still protected by copyright in the United States, unless an exception applies.
- Composer, piano reduction
- Leipzig: W. Karczag, 1930.
- Public Domain-Non-PD US [ tag / del]
- Vienna: Glocken-Verlag, 1957. Plate G.V. 489.
Schön ist die Welt ist ein Lied des 19. Jahrhunderts, das mit dem Aufkommen der Wandervogelbewegung, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts, große Bekanntheit erlangte und noch heute gerne gesungen wird. Nicht zuletzt auch als Stimmungslied, was dazu einlädt, eigene Verse einzubauen.
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Crown Prince Georg arrives at an alpine resort to meet his fiancee and Princess Elizabeth. However, on the way he stopped to help a girl, whose name he did not discover, mend a puncture and fell madly in love with her. He announces to his father that he will not marry Princess Elizabeth because he loves another. After a dramatic right spent by our ...
Act 1
In the lounge of the Hotel des Alpes, in a Swiss mountain resort, an orchestra is playing and guests are dancing, but the hotel manager and the major-domo to the Duchess Maria Branckenhorst are not interested in the music. They are looking out of the windows with anxious faces. They are expecting a visit from the King of a small but significant European country and his son, Crown Prince Georg, and the major-domo is impressing upon the manager the importance of the King remaining incognito dur...
Act 2
The following day, high on the mountain, the two mountaineers are pressing on upwards, stimulated by the superb view and by each other's company. It is clear that they already have budding feelings of love for each other. They are feeling in need of a rest when they come upon a mountain hut. It is remarkably well equipped, with such comforts as a cooker, food and radio, and Princess Elisabeth volunteers to cook a meal. While she is doing so, Georg stands outside the hut, pondering his situati...
Act 3
Back at the Hotel des Alpes, the guests are clamouring around the manager seeking news and wondering whether they themselves may be in danger from avalanches. Fortunately the manager is able to reassure them over both their own safety and that of the Princess. An airman has seen her and her companion together on the mountain. Now speculation redirects itself towards the identity of the stranger who is with Elisabeth, and Mercedes stirs matters up by pointing to the scandal of the Princess spe...
ACT 1. 1. Vorspiel 2. In der Halle eines großen Hotels 3. Sagen Sie, lieber Direktor 4. Wie seltsam bewegt 5. Ein gelbes Auto 6. Mein Kind, du bist entzückend 7. Majestät, Majestät, er kommt 8. Bruder leichtsinn, so werd ich genannt 9. Was seh' ich, mein wilder Jäger 10. Ein Ausflug mit Ihnen 11. Hallo Sascha 12. Dort in der kleinen Tanzbar 13. Als...
3 Female, 4 Male, SATB Chorus. 1. Kronprinz Georg/Tenor 2. Prinzessin Elisabeth/Sopran 3. König/Bariton 4. Herzogin Maria/Alt 5. Graf Sascha/ Bariton 6. Mercedes del Rossa/Sopran 7. Hoteldirektor/Bariton 8. Obersthofmeister/Bariton 9. Oberkellner/Tenor 10. Sprechrolle Kronprinz Georg 11. Sprechrolle Prinzessin Elisbath Sets:2 Orchestra: 2222/4231/P...
Schön ist Die Welt (1930) is a re-working of Lehár’s earlier one-act operetta, Endlich allein (1914). SYNOPSIS: Crown Prince Georg arrives at an alpine resort to meet his fiancee, Princess Elizabeth. However, on the way he stopped to help a girl, whose name he did not discover, mend a puncture and fell madly in love with her.
Schön ist die Welt ist eine Operette in drei Akten von Franz Lehár nach einem Libretto von Ludwig Herzer und Fritz Löhner-Beda. Das Werk erlebte seine Uraufführung am 3. Dezember 1930 am Metropol-Theater in Berlin mit Richard Tauber und Gitta Alpár. Dabei handelt es sich um die Neufassung der Operette Endlich Allein, die am 30. Januar 1914 ...
