Friedenstag

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Friedenstag (Peace Day) is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Joseph Gregor. It premiered at Munich on July 24, 1938. The opera is dedicated to Viorica Ursuleac and her husband Clemens Krauss, the lead and conductor.

[edit] Roles

		Premiere, July 24, 1938 (Clemens Krauss)
Commandant of the beleaguered town	baritone	Hans Hotter
Maria, his wife	soprano	Viorica Ursuleac
A sergeant	bass
A corporal	baritone
A private soldier	tenor
A musketeer	bass
A bugler	bass
An officer	baritone
A front-line officer	baritone
A Piedmontese	tenor
The Holsteiner, commanding the besieging army	bass
The burgomaster	tenor
The bishop	baritone
A woman of the people	soprano
Soldiers of the garrison and of the besieging army, elders of the town and women of the deputation to the commandant, townspeople

[edit] Synopsis

Place: The citadel of a beleaguered town in Germany
Time: The last day of the thirty years' war