- Valses de Vienne
Valses de Vienne is an
operetta in three acts, libretto by Alfred Maria Wilner, Heinz Reichert, Ernst andHubert Marischka , music byJohann Strauss father and son, arranged byErich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner, first performed at theTheater an der Wien , inVienna , on May 18, 1931.French version: libretto translated by André Mouézy-Eon and Jean Marietti, first performed at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, in
Paris , on December 21, 1933.Main characters
* Rési -
soprano
* Strauss Jr -baryton-martin
* Countess Olga - soprano
* Strauss Sr - spoken roleynopsis
The action takes place in Vienna around 1845, and relates the rilvary between the Strausses, father and son, and the love of the young Rési for Strauss Jr., but with the help of a Russian Countess, father and son are reconciled and love triumphs.
Discography
* "Valses de Vienne" -
Mady Mesplé , Bernard Sinclair, Christiane Stutzmann, Pierre Bertin - Choeurs René Duclos, Orchestre de l'Opéra-Comique,Jean Doussard -EMI (1971)ources
* "L'opéra", Pierre Brunel & Stéphane Wolff, (Bordas,1980) ISBN 2-040-16367-0
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