Es war einmal
A German-language fairy-tale opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky in a prologue and three acts, adapted from Holger Drachmann’s play Der var engang through Marie von Borch’s German translation.
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A German-language fairy-tale opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky in a prologue and three acts, adapted from Holger Drachmann’s play Der var engang through Marie von Borch’s German translation.
The princess rejects all her suitors until her father gives her to a beggar. On the journey to his cottage, she learns that the lands they pass belong to kings she had rejected. She struggles with poverty and manual work, and her haughty spirit softens. Her husband finds her a job as a scullery maid at her own castle. At a royal wedding, the beggar reveals that he is the handsome king she once rejected and says he married her to change her character. They prepare for their wedding.
A German-language fairy-tale opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky in a prologue and three acts, adapted from Holger Drachmann’s play Der var engang through Marie von Borch’s German translation.
The princess rejects all her suitors until her father gives her to a beggar. On the journey to his cottage, she learns that the lands they pass belong to kings she had rejected. She struggles with poverty and manual work, and her haughty spirit softens. Her husband finds her a job as a scullery maid at her own castle. At a royal wedding, the beggar reveals that he is the handsome king she once rejected and says he married her to change her character. They prepare for their wedding.