An allem ist Hütchen schuld!
| An allem ist Hütchen schuld! | |
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| Opera by Siegfried Wagner | |
List of the cast of the premiere
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| Description | Märchenspiel |
| Translation | Everything is to blame for Hats! |
| Librettist | Siegfried Wagner |
| Language | German |
| Based on | fairy-tales of the Grimm brothers |
| Premiere | 5 November 1917 Hoftheater Stuttgart |
An allem ist Hütchen schuld! ('Hattie is to blame for everything!'), Op. 11, is an opera in German in three acts composed by Siegfried Wagner in 1914/15 to his own libretto. It is described as a Märchenspiel or fairy-tale play. It premiered on 6 December 1917 at the court theatre (Hoftheater) in Stuttgart.
Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, composed several operas on fairy tale and legendary topics. He began the composition of An allem ist Hütchen schuld! in September 1914. He finished a draft for the first act on 22 September and its score in November that year, a draft for the second act on 10 January 1915 and its score on 12 April, and the draft for the third act on 11 June, completing the opera on 26 August 1915. He wrote the libretto based on several episodes from fairy-tales of the Grimm brothers.
The premiere was at the Hoftheater Stuttgart on 6 December 1917, staged by Franz Ludwig Hörth and conducted by Erich Band. It was a success with the public comparable to his Der Bärenhäuter. The opera was performed again in Halle in 1929, staged by Heinrich Kreutz and conducted again by Band. A production in Leipzig in 1939 was directed by Wolfram Humperdinck in a stage set by Wieland Wagner and conducted by Gilbert of Gravina. A production in Altenburg in 1944 was also shown in Bayreuth, directed by Wieland Wagner, conducted by Kurt Overhoff and with choreography by Gertrud Wagner.
After World War II, the opera was not played. The first complete production was in 1997 at the Theater Hagen, staged by Peter P. Pachl and conducted by Gerhard Markson. The opera was played once at the AudiMax of the Ruhr University Bochum on 18 October 2015, again staged by Pachl, with Lionel Friend conducting the Bochumer Symphoniker.
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