Carnival in Venice with Offenbach and the operetta
(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 31 – Great music, a cheerful romantic atmosphere and a moral that reaffirms how money does not bring happiness. It is the mixture of the operetta “ Le 66! ” By Jacques Offenbach which will be staged in Venice on the days of Carnival, February 25, 26 and 27, at Palazzetto Bru Zane, home to the Center de musique romantique française. The one-act composition with libretto by Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin was written in 1856 for the theater des Bouffes-Parisiens founded by the composer himself in Paris. Le 66 !, explains Victoria Duhamel, is “a little gem, a divertissement that features characters as moving as they are realistic, a director with a lively and bubbly music, which combines inventiveness and references to the grand opéra, and a plot of the most classic, even edifying… “It is the story of two Tyrolean cousins Frantz and Grittly, traveling musicians dream of a turning point in life if the lottery ticket in their pocket turns out to be a winner. When a Berthold street vendor, who knows the outcome of the draw, reveals that 66 will win one hundred thousand florins, Frantz is sure he has the lucky ticket in his pocket, gets the equivalent of the sum delivered and goes to waste it. The euphoria of presumed wealth will turn into despair when he discovers that he has read the number backwards: his ticket is 99. The successor decreed by the Parisian bourgeois public confirmed the talent of Offenbach, considered the father of operetta. or, which arrives in Venice after a tour in France, stars Berthold Paul-Alexandre Dubois (Frantz), Flannan Obé (Grittly) and Lara Neumann (Rozenn). Palazzetto Bru Zane has been working since 2009 on the international rediscovery and dissemination of the French musical heritage (1780-1920), from chamber music to the symphonic, sacred and lyrical repertoire, without neglecting the “ light ” genres, chanson, opéra- comic, operetta. (HANDLE).