SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY • Act I - The Courtyard of a lodging house • Act II - A sitting room in Christian Veit's House • Act III - The Prater INSTRUMENTATION: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, percussion, harp, strings For amateur performance - adaptation by Phil Park and Ronald Hanmer CHARACTERS • Mitzi, Litzi, Fritzi — charming Viennese girls • Mrs. Zell — their mother • Otto Zell — their father • Adelina Taliani — a famous singer • Mrs. Krauss — a caretaker • Mrs. Weber — a housewife • Rosi — Taliani's maid • Tilli — maid at the Zells' house • Franz Schubert — a composer • Baron Franz von Schober — a poet • Johann Vogl — a singer • Moritz von Schwind — a painter • Ludwig Kuppel — a draughtsman • Ferdinand Binder — a postman • Andreas Brun — a saddler • Novotny — a detective • Count Scharntorff — man-about-town • Piccolo — an errand boy Citizens of Vienna — tradespeople, townspeople, soldiers, etc. SCENES & SETTINGS Act 1 : The Forecourt of a Lodging House Act 2 : The Drawing-room in the Zells' House (A few weeks later) Act 3 : The Prater (next morning) Place: VIENNA TIME: Early 1820s Notes on Principal Characters • MITZI - youngest of the three respectable-middle-class Zell sisters. Charming, naïve, romantic. Soprano. • LITZI , FRITZI - the other two Zell sisters. Also attractive, but somewhat more sophisticated and forthright. Litzi; Soprano. Fritzi; mezzo-soprano • TALIANI - stylish and purposefully alluring; a man-dominator intolerant of female competition. Soprano. • MRS. WEBER - a typical Viennese "haus-frau". Soprano. • MRS. KRAUSS - a somewhat tetchy lodging-house charwoman-caretaker. Contralto. • MRS. ZELL - grey-haired and homely; kind-hearted and inclined to be emotional. Contralto. • SCHUBERT - the composer in his twenties—mild-mannered, warm-hearted, shy, almost "innocent". High Baritone. • SCHOBER - a well-to-do aristocratic "play-boy"-type very attractive to women, and a dilettante-poet. High Baritone. • VOGL - a prosperous professional singer, rather theatrical in manner, but good-hearted and a loyal
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