The Officer leaves and the Deserter emerges from the inner room. The Wife fends off his attempt at courtship by letting his dispatch case fall from the balcony. They take the Husband to the factory, so that the Third Officer, a brutal man, may be alone with the Wife, to whom he has taken a fancy. Vizavi is an invalid in a wheelchair who uses his binoculars to peep into the tenants’ homes while the Janitress, whose husband and sons fell in the war, harbours a fanatical hatred towards everybody who is young and alive.Ī conversation between the couple and the Deserter is interrupted by three Officers from the war factory (tenor, baritone and bass). In the short prologue the Janitress (mezzo-soprano) and Vizavi (‘vis-á-vis’ tenor) are engaged in a conversation: they know almost everything about the tenants. The Husband (baritone), an engineer in a war factory, and the Wife (soprano) hide their friend, the Deserter (tenor), in their home. The scene is the flat of a middle-class family in Budapest during the German occupation in summer 1944. Opera in one act by Emil Petrovics to a libretto by Miklós Hubay Budapest, Opera, 11 March 1962 (previously broadcast, Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation, 27 August 1961). Membranophones (Stretched Membrane Percussion) Music Business, Institutions and Organizations
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