Fiddler on the Roof

Statua Fiddler on the Roof in Netanya.

Citharista in tecto (anglice "Fiddler on the Roof"), comoedia verbis a Iosepho Stein scriptis, canticis a Ierry Bock confectis, in scaenam Novi Eboraci anno 1964 prodita est. Argumentum e fabellis auctore Sholem Aleykhem nomine Tobias lactearius (iudaeo-germanice Tevye der milkhiger) editis adducitur..[1].[2]


Argumentum

Tevye (Tobias) Iudaeus, Sarmatiae incola, quinque filias genuit quibus mores maiorum tradere conatur. Novi motus temporibus turbatis obstant.

Dramatis Personae

  • Tevye, lactearius, pius paterfamilias, aegre filias indociles sustinet.
  • Golda, uxor eius, indignans.
  • Tzeitel, filia maxima, annorum circa XIX, pauperi Motel nubet.
  • Hodel, annorum circa XVII, Perchik amatum in Siberiam sequitur.
  • Chava, annorum circa XV, Fyedkam amat.
  • Shprintza, annorum circa XII.
  • Bielka, annorum circa IX.
  • Motel Kamzoil, sartor inops, Tzeitel uxorem ducit.
  • Perchik, rerum novarum fautor (Bolshevik), Hodel sectat.
  • Fyedka, Russus fidei Christianae. Miseret Iudaeorum.
  • Lazar Wolf, carnifex, viduus locuples. Concupiscit Hodel.
  • Yenta, anus, nuptias Hodel cum Lazaro fovet.
  • Fruma-Sarah, uxor Lazari defuncta.
  • Avia Tzeitel, Goldae progenetrix defuncta.
  • Mordcha, caupo.
  • Rabbinus, sapiens vici.
  • Ballivus, Russus fidei Christianae, praefectus vigilum

Fons

  1. ↑ TIME magazine reported in its May 26, 2008, issue, p. 51, that this musical ranked as the seventh most frequently produced musical by U.S. high schools in 2007.
  2. ↑ Joselit, Jenna Weissman. "Fiddler on the Roof Distorted Sholem Aleichem", The New Republic, June 7, 2014, accessed November 3, 2014