"O Vaterland" - Danilo's aria from Lehar's DIE LUSTIGE WITWE
"Lose, muntre Lieder" - from Paul Lincke's FRAU LUNA
Homonay's Recruitment Song from J. Strauss's DER ZIGEUNERBARON
"Ach ich hab' sie nur auf die Schulter gekuesst" from Carl Milloecker's
DER BETTELSTUDENT (sung by Col. Ollendorf)
Benozzo's "Der verdammte Gasparone" and "Auch ich war einst ein junger
Mann" from Milloecker's GASPARONE
"Ich bin ein Diplomate" from Oskar Nedbal's POLENBLUT
Tschoell's "Geh, Alte, schau" from the Cullivier/Schubert DAS
DREIMAEDERLHAUS
Third act drinking song from Lehar's PAGANINI.
Franz Josef's "Es ist einmal in Leben so" from Ralph Benatzky's IM WEISSEN
ROESSL
"Pardon, Madame" from Paul Abraham's DIE BLUME VON HAWAII.
In addition, quite a few operetta roles are "zwischenfach" - for example
Eisenstein in DIE FLEDERMAUS, Danilo in DIE LUSTIGE WITWE, Rene in DER
GRAF VON LUXEMBURG, Gustl in DAS LAND DES LAECHELNS, and a number of
others. Just listen to Thomas Hampson's recent operetta album, to Erich
Kunz, Hermann Prey and Gabriel Bacquier all
singing the romantic leading men in various operetta recordings, Robert
Merrill as Bumerli in (an English-language adapation of) Oscar
Straus's DER TAPFERE SOLDAT (with Rise Stevens in the
low-tessitural soprano role) onstage (and Nelson Eddy in the same role
- with no need of transposition - in the much-bastardised movie version)
and consider that Placido Domingo just sang Danilo at the Met - and I'd
say that, if you can get away with it vocally, you should sing
whichever of the luscious tenor operetta songs you like best.
Karen Mercedes
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Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt,
Der in den Zweigen wohnet;
Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,
Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet.
-- J.W. von Goethe, WILHELM MEISTER
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