Re: Goldfaden's operettas

[itzik gottesman <gottesman...>]

Unfortunately there is no such thing as "complete" printed Goldfaden
play with libretto and music  together.

You have to get the printed play seperately and the printed music
seperately and put them together. However in the YIVO archives in NY
such a complete play may exist in manuscript. Perhaps in other
institutions as well. Apparently Harvard library now has Seymour
Rechtzeits papers, (almost synonomous with the papers of the Hebrew
Actor's Union) and it might be found there among other places.

When doing such a project  (performing a Goldfaden musical) I would
not forget the oral tradition aspect and try to have an older Yiddish
actor helping you who had performed in the play.

?ÝItzik Gottesman
Associate Editor, Yidish Forward,