200.000 Thalers
Comic opera in three scenes and an epilogue: words and music by BORIS BLACHER sung in German first broadcast in this country Scene: the Jewish quarter of a small Galician town in the late 19th century
Blacher's new opera was one of the main events at the Berlin Festival last autumn. He based his libretto on a story by Scholem Aleichem. the Ukrainian Jewish writer who died in 1916. The humble tailor Sorocker thinks he's won a fortune in a lottery. So does everyone else, including the property magnate Solomon Fein. who installs him in a luxurious villa and proposes to marry his pretty daughter. She prefers to elope with a poor apprentice; but Sorocker had the wrong number, so Fein throws him out and the family end up reunited in their old shop, humble again but happy.
Orchestra of the DEUTSCHE OPER, WEST BERLIN, conducted by HEINRICH HOLLREISER Produced by GUSTAV RUDOLF SELLNER
Scene 1 Sorocker's workshop Scene 2 Sorocker's luxurious new villa