Editing Az obsitos

{{Short description|Operetta by Emmerich Kálmán}}
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'''''Az obsitos''''' (''The Soldier on Leave'') is an [[operetta]] by [[Emmerich Kálmán]]. It has been performed under many different names.

==Performance history and versions==
The first version, in Hungarian, with a [[libretto]] by Károly von Bakonyi, premiered at the [[Vígszínház]], Budapest, on 16 March 1910.

The second, German version, ''{{Lang|de|Der gute Kamerad}}'' (The good comrade), with a libretto revised by [[Viktor Léon]], premiered at the [[Bürgertheater]], Vienna, on 10 October 1911. The location of the operetta was changed from Hungary to Austria. The main roles were sung by {{Ill|Betty Fischer|de}}, [[Louise Kartousch]], [[Hubert Marischka]] and {{Ill|Ernst Tautenhayn|de}}.

The third, more nationalistic, version, ''{{Lang|de|Gold gab ich für Eisen}}'' (''I Gave Gold for Iron'') was premiered at the [[Theater an der Wien]] on 16 October 1914. This was adapted, with additional music by [[Sigmund Romberg]] and words by [[Rida Johnson Young]], as ''Her Soldier Boy'' which was produced on Broadway, at the [[Astor Theatre, New York City|Astor Theatre]], from 6 December 1916 to 26 May 1917, and as ''Soldier Boy'' at the [[Apollo Theatre]], [[Shaftesbury Avenue]], [[Westminster]], in 1918.

A version produced by [[Ohio Light Opera]] in [[Wooster, Ohio]], 2005 was called ''A Soldier's Promise''. This was based on ''{{Lang|de|Der gute Kamerad}}''. It was recorded as a DVD.

==Roles==
{| class="wikitable"
!Role
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 16 March 1910<br>(Conductor: – )
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|Karoline
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|Marlene, ''her daughter''
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|Alwin, ''friend of Karoline's son, Franz''
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|}

==Synopsis==
Karoline and her daughter Marlene do not know that their long-absent son and brother Franz has been killed in the war. Franz's soldier friend Alwin goes to tell them the news, but in the event, he can't bring himself to tell them the truth and introduces himself as Alwin, whom they haven’t seen in many years. But things grow difficult when Alwin finds himself falling in love with his “sister”.

== References ==
*{{Almanacco|match=Az obsitos}}
*[[Andrew Lamb (writer)|Lamb, Andrew]] (1992), "Kálmán, Emmerich" in ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]'', ed. [[Stanley Sadie]] (London) {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}}

==External links==
* [http://www.josef-weinberger.co.uk/operas-operetta/opera/gute-kamerad-der.html Josef Weinberger page on ''Der gute Kamerad'', accessed 20 November 2010]
* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=7767 IBDB page on ''Her Soldier Boy'', accessed 20 November 2010]
* [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/12/07/301945642.pdf "Mirth and Melody in ''Her Soldier Boy''], review in ''[[The New York Times]]'', 7 December 1916, accessed 20 November 2010

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