Chlestakows Wiederkehr, op.149, (Khlestakov's Return) is an opera in three acts by Giselher Klebe

Giselher Klebe

Giselher Wolfgang Klebe was a German composer. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, 8 symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano works, and sacred music.-Biography:...

. He also wrote the libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

, based on the play

Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

 Der Revisor (The Government Inspector) by Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...

. The work lasts about 70 minutes.

The opera premiered on 11 April 2008 at the Landestheater Detmold

Detmold

Detmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of about 74,000. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947...

, Germany. It is Klebe's first and only comedic opera

Opera buffa

Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc...

. His adaptation of the text is only loosely based on Gogol and adds a significant twist in the final scene.

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 11 April 2008 Conductor:Erich Wächter
Anton Antonowitsch Swosnik, Town Governor	baritone Baritone Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...	Andreas Jören
Ammos Fjordorowitsch Ljapkin, Judge	tenor Tenor The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...	Byoung Oh Kim
Luka Lukitsch, School Inspector	baritone	Joachim Goltz
Artemij Filipowitsch Semljnanika, Superintendent for the Homeless and the Old	bass	Vladimir Miakotine
Iwan Kusmitsch Schpekin, Post Master	tenor	Snorri Wium
Natascha Andrejewna, Town Governor's wife	mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...	Brigitte Bauma
Olga Antonowna, Town Governor's daughter)	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...	Kirsten Höner zu Siederdissen
Iwan Alexandrowitsch Chlestakow, a young man from Petersburg	tenor	Johannes Harten
Ossip, Chlestakow's servant	tenor	Markus Gruber
Mischka, the Town Governor's servant		Kevin Dickmann
Stephan Iwanowitsch Koropkin, Innkeeper
Policeman	spoken role
Director		Kay Metzger
Stage & Costume Design		Petra Mollérus
Dramaturgy Dramaturgy Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Dramaturgy is a distinct practice separate from play writing and directing, although a single individual may perform any combination of the three. Some dramatists combine writing and...		Elisabeth Wirtz

The role names above are spelled as in the German text.

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