• Year of composition: Probably at the beginning of the 1780s
• Work category: Operetta / Comic opera
• Text author: Carl Envallsson (1756-1806)
• First performed: Den Svenska Theatern [The Swedish Theatre], Stockholm, 1781
• Duration: Approx. 90-120 min
• Detailed duration: Durata: c. 100 minutes, including spoken dialogue

Instrumentation

(cont) / str

Solo voices/choir

Matths, en gammal kopparslagare [Matths, and old coppersmith] (bass)
Fiken, dels fosterbarn, eljest systerdotter, Carls älskarinna [Fiken, partly foster child, also niece, Carl’s lover] (soprano)
Carl, Fikens älskling och kopparslagarlärling under namnet Zachris [Carl, Fiken’s darling, also coppersmith apprentice under the name Zachris] (bass)
Polisson, en löjlig sprätthök, kär i Fiken [Polisson, a silly dandy, in love with Fiken] (tenor)
Fårberg, en rådman, Carls farbror [Fårberg, a magistrate, Carl’s uncle] (bass)
Lisken, piga hos Matths [Lisken, maid at Matths’s] (soprano)

2 sopranos (Fiken, Lisken), 1 tenor (Polisson), 3 basses (Matths, Carl/Zachris, Fårberg)

Examples of printed editions

Swedish Musical Heritage, ed. no. 658 (2014); critical edition by Anders Wiklund (score)

Location for score and part material

Libretto exists at the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket.

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Description of work

Overture: Allegro D major 4/4 (C)
No. 1 Aria (Matths)
No. 2 Aria (Matths)
No. 3 Duetto (Zachris, Matths)
No. 4 Aria [original version] (Carl) / No. 4a Aria [premier version] (Carl)
No. 5 Recitativo and Duo (Fiken, Carl)
No. 6 Quartour [Quartet] (Fiken, Carl, Fåberg, Matths)
No. 7 Recitativo and Aria (Fiken)
No. 8 [Ariette] Liskens bön (Lisken, Matths)
No. 9 [Ariette] (Polisson)
No. 10 Rondo (Fiken)
No. 11 Terzetto (Fiken, Carl, Matths)
No. 12 Aria (Fiken)
No. 13 Aria (Matths)
No. 14 Vaudeville (Fiken, Lisken, Carl, Fårberg, Matths)

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Work comment

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