Maria shrinks from his gaze, but he is fascinated. Maria is admiring the summer evening from the hospital, when the Dictator walks a courier out of the hotel, instructing him to deliver a declaration of war.
The curtain rises on a terrace between the Grand Palace hotel and a sanatorium, overlooking Lake Geneva. The view from Montreux described in the stage directions Roles Roles, voice types, premiere cast RoleĬourier, groom, medical orderly, detective (silent) The music is Puccinian in idiom, particularly in its use of the voice, and makes extensive use of leitmotives such as the alternating minor third triplet first heard in the bass as the war telegram is mentioned, which becomes the sole accompaniment to the officer's narrative. "Only from the irrational does he retreat, not so much out of fear but because he can do nothing with it, he cannot dominate it." The title character is loosely based on Benito Mussolini, although the story is not deliberately political Krenek later described it as "an anecdote from the private life of the 'strong man'. The score is inscribed with the date of completion, 28 August 1926.
49 and the first of three one-acters (with Das geheime Königreich and Schwergewicht, oder Die Ehre der Nation) which premiered on at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as part of the Festspiele Wiesbaden.
Der Diktator ( The Dictator) is a tragic opera in one act with words and music by Ernst Krenek, his Op.
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