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Dorita har allt til festen, maskerad, partyprylar, presenter med mera! Maskarade has enjoyed enduring popularity in Denmark where it is considered to be the country's national opera. Nielsen first considered writing an opera based on Holberg's play Maskarade around the turn of the 20th century. He contacted Vilhelm Andersen — whom he knew from his student days, hoping to persuade him to write a libretto.
Andersen initially refused but finally agreed, allowing Nielsen to start composing in May The Royal Theatre scheduled the opera even before it was finished. In fact, Nielsen completed the overture only on 3 November, a week before the opera's premiere. It was a resounding success from the start with an exceptional run of 25 performances over its first four months.
Reviews in the press were however mixed, the consensus being that the first act was the best, the second was rather weak and the third lacked theatrical clarity although the music was brilliant. Now considered to be Denmark's national opera, it has enjoyed lasting success in the country, attributable to its many strophic songs , its dances and its underlying "old Copenhagen" atmosphere.
In , Denmark's Ministry of Culture named it one of Denmark's twelve greatest musical works. The opera did not premiere in the United States until when it was performed by the St. Despite its popularity in his home country, Nielsen was not entirely satisfied with the work, citing structural weakness in the final two acts; but he never got around to revising the work.
The overture and the ballet from the third act "Dance of the Cockerels" are performed frequently, as noted by the Carl Nielsen Society, which states that the overture is one of Nielsen's most widely performed works at concerts in Europe and North America. The story revolves around Leander and Leonora, two young people who meet fortuitously at a masquerade ball, swear their undying love for each other and exchange rings.
The following day, Leander tells his valet Henrik of his newfound love. He becomes distraught when reminded by Henrik that his parents have betrothed him in marriage to Leonora, the daughter of Leonard from remote Slagelse. Things get complicated when Leonard himself, whose daughter Leonora is the other part of this arrangement, comes complaining to Leander's father that Leonora is in love with someone she met at the masquerade the previous night.
In the third act, all is resolved when the various parties slip off to the night's masquerade, where all is revealed to everyone's mutual satisfaction. As part of the celebrations of the th anniversary of Carl Nielsen's birth, the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen staged eleven well-received performances of Maskarade from March to May Contents move to sidebar hide.
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