Gustav Albert Lortzing (23 October 1801 – 21 January 1851) was a German composer, librettist, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel. Zar und Zimmermann, Singspiel in 3 Acts (1837) Librettist: The composer after Der Bürgermeister von Saardam, oder Die zwei Peter by Georg Christian Römer (1766-1829) which was based upon the play Le Bourgmestre de Saardam, ou Les deux Pierre by Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, Jean-Toussaint Merle, and Eugène Centiran de Boirie (1785-1837). Please support my channel: https://ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans 1. Overture (0:00) Act I Scene 1 No. 1 Introduction (6:03) 1a. Zimmermannslied (8:18) No. 2 Ariette (12:04) Scene 4 No. 3 Recitative und Arie (17:12) Scene 6 No. 4. Arie (20:11) Diese Ausdrucksvollen... (22:50) Scene 7 No. 5 Chor und Ensemble (26:11) No. 6 Duett (30:53) Scene 15 No. 7 Finale Scene 16 Lustig zum Tanze (43:48) Act II No. 8 Introduction und Chor (48:30) No. 9 Lied und Chor (50:52) No. 10 Sextett (55:54) No. 11 Brautlied und Chor (1:03:42) No. 12 Finale (1:05:42) Act III No. 13 Ensemble (1:13:45) No. 14 Lied (1:23:06) No. 15 Duett (1:29:10) Piu moto (1:34:20) Ballet - National Dance with wooden shoes (1:35:55) Erhabner Held! (1:40:00) Raymond Wolansky, Peter Haage, Hans Sotin, Lucia Popp, Herbert Fliether, Noël Mangin, Horst Wilhelm, Ursula Boese, Franz Grundheber; Ballet and Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. 1969 Arthaus Musik. Live recording. Zar und Zimmermann (Tsar and Carpenter) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Albert Lortzing, libretto by the composer after Georg Christian Römer's Der Bürgermeister von Saardam, oder Die zwei Peter, itself based on the French play Le Bourgmestre de Saardam, ou Les deux Pierre by Mélésville, Jean-Toussaint Merle, and Eugène Centiran de Boirie. Ultimately, it goes back to the historical Grand Embassy of Peter the Great. Gaetano Donizetti had set the same story in his 1827 opera Il borgomastro di Saardam. The opera was first performed at the Stadttheater in Leipzig, on 22 December 1837. Lortzing's most successful and enduring work, it is still regularly performed in German-speaking countries. The action takes place in Saardam, Holland, in 1698. Peter the Great of Russia, disguised as Peter Michaelov, a common laborer, is working in a shipyard in the Dutch town of Saardam, to learn shipbuilding techniques for his navy. He befriends a fellow Russian also working in the yard, Peter Ivanov, a deserter from the Russian army. Peter Ivanov is in love with Marie, the niece of Van Bett, the Burgomaster of Saardam. Tsar Peter is told of trouble in Russia, and decides to return home. Van Bett has been told to find a foreigner named Peter in the shipyard. The English ambassador, Syndham, and the French ambassador, Chateauneuf, have both heard the rumor of Tsar P