Organization

Singer

Bass

Robert Meyer

Leopold Maria

Wolfgang Gratschmaier

Contralto

Sigrid Hauser

Anhilte

Tenor

Lucian Krasznec

Edwin Ronald

Szabolcs Brickner

Soprano

Juliette Khalil

Countess Stasi

Johanna Arrouas

Christian Graf

General Rohnsdorff

Jakob Semotan

Count Boni Kancsianu

Michael Havlicek

Boris Eder

Feri von Kerekes

Axel Herrig

Elissa Huber

Sylva Varescu

Ursula Pfitzner

Nicolaus Hagg

Sándor von Kiss/Diener/Inspizient

Conductor

Alfred Eschwé

Laszlo Gyüker

Stage director

Peter Lund

Set designer

Ulrike Reinhard

Costume designer

Daria Kornysheva

Video designer

Andreas Ivancsics

Choreographer

Andrea Heil

Chorus master

Holger Kristen

Volksoper Wien

Orchestra

Orchester der Volksoper Wien

Others

Chor der Volksoper Wien

Ġermaniż

Die Csárdásfürstin -  (The Gypsy Princess)

Vienna

Austria

Volksoper

Emmerich Kálmán's early stroke of genius has lost none of its appeal more than 100 years after its premiere (1915). Like no other work, Emmerich Kálmán's operetta stands for the end of the Danube monarchy and the silver era of Viennese operettas with their waltz tradition. Director and lyricist Peter Lund gives new impetus to the bittersweet love story set on the brink of war catastrophe.

Countess Stasi and the prince's son Edwin Lippert-Weylersheim are destined for each other - at least that's how his parents see it. They didn't reckon with the chansonette Sylva Varescu, with whom Edwin fell passionately in love at the Budapest Orpheum and promised to marry her. Sylva appears incognito at the engagement party, as the alleged wife of Count Boni, who in turn falls in love with the Stasi at first sight. This caused a lot of confusion, as did the disclosure of a well-kept secret of the lady of the house: Did Princess Anhilte also have a previous life as a chansonette.

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