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Tiefland

Artist Various
Title Tiefland
Release Date Friday, August 18, 2000
Genre Opera > Opera
Composer Eugen D´Álbert
Songwriters Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Ferdinand Frantz / Else Liebesberg / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun, Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Erich Kaufmann / Erika Feichtinger / Elisabeth Fez / Elfriede Riegler / Hanns Koch / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz, Helena Braun / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch, Ferdinand Frantz / Helena Braun / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Walter Berry / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Hanns Koch, Hanns Koch / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun, Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Ferdinand Frantz / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Else Liebesberg / Elfriede Riegler, Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Helena Braun, Erika Feichtinger / Elisabeth Fez / Elfriede Riegler / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Else Liebesberg, Ferdinand Frantz / Erika Feichtinger / Walter Berry / Elfriede Riegler / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Else Liebesberg / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Elisabeth Fez / Hanns Koch, Erich Majkut / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Hanns Koch, Günther Treptow / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Hanns Koch, Hanns Koch / Erich Kaufmann / Erika Feichtinger / Elisabeth Fez / Elfriede Riegler / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Else Liebesberg, Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Else Liebesberg / Ferdinand Frantz / Helena Braun / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Walter Berry / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Erich Kaufmann / Erika Feichtinger / Elfriede Riegler / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Else Liebesberg / Walter Berry / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Elisabeth Fez / Hanns Koch, Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Erich Kaufmann / Erika Feichtinger / Elfriede Riegler / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Walter Berry / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Elisabeth Fez, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Hanns Koch / Elfriede Riegler, Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Helena Braun / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Else Liebesberg / Helena Braun, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Erich Majkut / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Hanns Koch, Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Günther Treptow / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Hanns Koch, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Ferdinand Frantz / Wiener Rundfunkorchester / Hanns Koch / Günther Treptow / Elfriede Riegler / Helena Braun
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Country AUSTRIA

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In the Pyrenees Mountains, high above the Lowland plains, the shepherd boy Pedro tends the flocks of his master Sebastiano and dreams of the ideal woman he has not yet encountered. As Pedro muses, the wealthy and brutal Sebastiano appears with Marta, whom he has made his helpless slave. Sebastiano is planning a rich marriage for himself, but he intends to force Pedro into a marriage with Marta and then go on enjoying Marta`s favours as before. Pedro, seeing in Marta the girl of whom he has dreamed, agrees and accompanies Sebastiano and Marta to the Catalonian Lowland village where Sebastiano will make him his miller. Little Nuri, one of Sebastiano’s servants, unwittingly gives away to the townspeople the master’s evil plan, and Marta and Pedro are mocked as they come down from the mountains for the wedding. Marta implores Sebastiano not to force her into this marriage with Pedro, but Sebastiano's only reply is that he will visit Marta on her bridal night. After the wedding Pedro’s honest love for Marta brings home to the bride the shamefulness of her situation. Pedro even gives Marta all the wealth he possesses - the silver dollar he won for killing a wolf. Marta ignores the light in her bedroom, the signal than Sebastiano is awaiting her, and remains in the mill with her husband. Marta`s uneasiness and the light in her bedroom have aroused Pedro’s suspicions and he goes to the village, returning with the knowledge of Marta’s past and her relationship with another, although he does not know the man’s identity. Marta has fallen deeply in love with Pedro but she believes that she has lost him now that he knows the truth, and so she taunts him in the hope that he will kill her. Pedro draws his dagger but realizes suddenly that in spite of everything he still he will kill her. Pedro draws his dagger but realizes suddenly that in spite of everything he still loves Marta. When the girl admits her love for Pedro to him, Pedro begs her to return with him to the mountains where the air is clean and pure. Sebastiano bursts brutally into this scene and demands that Marta dance for him. Marta denounces Sebastiano to Pedro as her betrayer, but when Pedro attacks his employer he is hurled from the house. Now Tommaso, a village elder, brings Sebastiano the news that the rich widow Sebastiano had intended to marry will have nothing to do with him. This so angers Sebastiano that he pursues Marta. Her cries for help bring Pedro back. Pedro leaps on Sebastiano and strangles him with his bare hands, just as he strangled the wolf in the mountains. Hand in hand, Marta and Pedro bid farewell to the Lowlands and leave together for the mountains and happiness.