<p>Surprised by a downpour, Prince Alfred and his companion von Edelfels take refuge in Casperl’s household while Grethl waits for her husband to return from the inn. Casperl arrives in a very drunken state and immediately falls asleep. The prince, who had retired with von Edelfels to a nearby hovel, has an idea for a joke. He has the sleeping Casperl taken to a luxurious room, where he is treated with full honours. Soon Casperl does not know whether he is Casperl or Prince Schnuri... Pretending to be his doctor, Prince Alfred gives him a sleeping pill, and Casperl wakes up a few hours later in his old room. Von Edelfels, disguised as a magician, assures him that he is indeed Prince Schnuri, but that as a punishment for being a drunkard he has been turnt into a ‘dumb man’. Casperl finds Grethl and promises to make amends, all while announcing that he will drink many more litres of beer.</p>

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Excessive drinking

Household

Rain

Joke

Aristocracy

Luxury

Sausage

Metempsychosis

Black

Doctor

Magic

Otto von Bismarck

Tavern

Comical

German

Moralische Komödie in drei Aufzügen

Prince

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Moorish

Valet

Monologue

Off-stage voice

Spying scene

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Disguise

Cross-dressing

Brawl

Pyrotechnics

Board

Current affairs

Incognito

Casperl als Prinz

Casperl prince

<p>In Florence, Lully, the son of a miller, hides so that he can listen to religious songs. Le Père Cordelier (Father Cordelier) gives him his first music classes. He starts to sing in public with Arlequin and Pantalon. The Chevalier de Guise (Knight of Guise) brings him to France, but he is hired as a kitchen hand for the Grande Mademoiselle (​​Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier). Playing the violin in front of Mazarin and the Grande Mademoiselle, he obtains the right to continue to study music. With Madeleine Lambert, he makes Louis XIV, who came incognito, dance. He is in charge of composing a show in which Louis XIV dances.</p>

All audiences

Choisy Laure

Switzerland

Geneva

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Music

Childhood

Learning

Humiliation

Royal Court

Kitchen

Commedia dell'arte

Realist

French

Lully le petit musicien

Priest

Composer

Pantaloon

Arlecchino

Knight

Cardinal

Writer

Cook

Donkey

Monkey

Parrot

Misunderstanding

Comical foreign accent

Dance

Theatre within the theatre

Lully enfant prodige

Lully child prodigy