> Description : The story | Die Handlung
Furfangos diākok
The sly students / Die listigen Studenten
ballet in one act and 6 scenes based on the novel by Mòr Jòkai
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| Composed: | 1949, rev. 1956 |
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| Subject: | Gusztàv Olàh |
| Choregraphy: | Gyula Harangozò |
| Durata: | 45' |
| Synopsis: | the director of the Debrecen College, Professor Horvàth, intends his daughter,Ròzsika, to marry Jòzsi, the son of Mr Streber, the town treasurer. |
| Cast: | Horvàth, director of the college, Terézia, his wife, Ròzsika, their daughter, Jònàs, a professor, Streber, the town treasurer, Fruzsina, his wife, Jòzsi, their son, Adàm, 3 horseherds. |
| Setting: | 3 (picc.), 2, 2, 2 – 4, 3, 3, 1 – timp., batt. (3 ess.) – arpa – archi |
| Source: | score, piano reduction & performance material : manuscript by Andràs Farkas |
| World premiere: | Hungarian State Opera of Budapest, 1949, conducted by Jenö Kenessey |
| Reworking: | Furfangos diàkok, suite for orchestra |
The story
The students
The director of Debrecen College, Professor Horvàth, intends his daughter, Ròzsika, to marry Jòzsi, the son of Mr Streber, the town treasurer.
However, the girl fancies Adàm, the poor student, as it turns out in the busy market place of the town where the boy gives the girl a present.
Wearing gowns, students enter the market place, and play a prank on form master Mr Jònàs who has fallen asleep whilst looking after his young pupils. Adàm pulls off one of the teacher’s boots, and the students dance away with it in the crowd.
His boot recovered, Mr Jònàs breaks into the room where the professors are buried in their books and are dropping off in the heat. The students are summoned, to call them to account for their pratical joke, and Jòzsi gives away Adàm, his rival. The culprit is sentenced to a lock-up. Adàm escapes from his cell to see Ròzsika watering flowers in their yard, and the couple dance merrily. However, Adàm must leave. Shortly the Streber family arrive to propose, but Ròzsika refuses Jòzsi’s hand. Swotting for his exams in the college student room, Jòzsi is drunk under the table in revenge by his fellow students, and the stoned boy is delivered in a comic funeral march to the Horvàths’house. Coming to, Jòzsi scandalously discredits himself in the courtyard, so nothing now can hinder the happiness of the lovers.
Die Handlung
Rķzsika and Adām
Die Tochter des Direktors Horvàth, Rózsika, verabscheut Józsis Hofmachereien, obwohl die Eltern nichts dagegen hätten, wenn sie dem streberhaften Studenten ihre Gunst schenken würde. Rózsikas Herz aber gehört Adàm, dem armen Kollegen. Die schelmischen Studenten spielen dem schlafenden Professor Jónàs einen Streich und ziehen ihm seine Stiefel von den Füssen. Man fahndet nach dem Missetäter, worauf Józsi Adam anzeigt, der in den Karzer geschlossen wird. Dann aber entschlüpft er aus dem Studentengefängnis und eilt zum geliebten Mädchen. Józsis Eltern halten für ihren Sohn um Rózsikas Hand an, werden jedoch Mädchen abgewiesen.
Die Studenten trinken Józsi unter den Tisch; der betrunkene Student verwechselt Frau Horvàth mit deren Tochter Rózsika und bestürmt sie heftig, ja er greift sogar den Direktor mit einem Stock an. Nach diesen Vorfällen geben die Eltern gerne ihre Zustimmung zur Heirat ihrer Tochter mit Adam.
