1997

Eine Rache (A Revenge)

Music: Eberhard Schoener, Libretto: Peter Kammerer/Eberhard Schoener/Stefanie Schoener

There is a big party in honor of the beautiful Duce Rosa at the House of Orellano. A gaucho is singing a street-tango. As Anselmo Orellano wants is dancing with his sister the party gets interrupted by the noise of attacking revolutionaries. Their leader Pedro storms into the house to murder the great landowner. Anselmo wants to kill his sister to spare her shame and violence. But she begs for her life in order to take revenge for her father's and brother's murder. Pedro demands the beautiful Dulce Rosa for himself.

Helen Schneider

years later - Pedro, now calling himself Don Tadeo, has become a respected governor. He is celebrating with his former comrades a party where the old tango is sung. Don Pedro, who never could forget Dulce Rosa, storms out to finally make up for his past wrong doing. Dulce Rosa is waiting for him as she has all these years to fullfill her revenge.

discover though that their hate has turned into love and became the other part of their lives. Dulce Rosa agrees to marry only to recognize the day before the wedding that the past cannot be erased. She puts on her dress made from Organza, the very dress in which Don Tadeo had seen her for the first time. The tango-musicians appear as angels of death and as before she is dancing with her brother. As Don Tadeo enters the room he finds Dulce Rosa dying. With her death she fulfills her oath.

Willy deVille