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Countess Maritza

Libretto · Musical · 1924

Count Tassilo works under an assumed name as a bailiff to earn money for his sister Lisa’s dowry. Countess Maritza arrives at her estate to celebrate a fictitious engagement to Baron Koloman Zsupán, but the actual Zsupán appears. Maritza and Tassilo grow attracted to one another, while Zsupán turns his attention to Lisa. After Maritza learns Tassilo’s identity and mistakenly believes Lisa is his lover, she insults him; she later writes a marriage proposal disguised as a reference. The operetta ends with both couples engaged.

Das Veilchen vom Montmartre

Libretto · Musical · 1930

Das Veilchen vom Montmartre is a three-act operetta by Emmerich Kálmán with a libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald.

Der Göttergatte

Libretto · Opera · 1904

A German operetta by Franz Lehár, originally with a prelude and two acts. It was later revised under the titles Die ideale Gattin and Die Tangokönigin.

Der letzte Walzer

Libretto · Opera · 1920

A three-act Viennese operetta.

Die Bajadere

Libretto · Musical · 1921

In Paris, Indian Prince Radjami falls in love with singer Odette Darimonde and asks a theater manager to arrange an introduction. Odette rejects him, but Radjami enlists Napoleon St. Cloche to help and uses roses to hypnotize her. During a party at the prince’s palace, Odette awakens from a trance and leaves him humiliated. Radjami later stages a false return to India, and Odette, believing he is gone, realizes she loves him. Meanwhile, Napoleon and Marietta marry but grow bored with each other; Marietta’s former husband is given a position in India, and Napoleon tells him he may take her back.

Die Herzogin von Chicago

Libretto · Musical · 1928

Wealthy Chicagoan Mary Lloyd bets that she can buy Europe’s most expensive object. In bankrupt Sylvaria, Prince Sándor Boris disguises himself as an aide-de-camp and meets Mary in Budapest. She falls for the aide, then discovers his identity after buying the royal palace and decides she must also have its prince. A misunderstanding over her letter to her father sends the prince back to his previous engagement. Bondy and Princess Rosemarie elope, while an American producer’s demand for a happy ending reunites Mary and the prince.

Die Zirkusprinzessin

Libretto · Musical · 1926

Circus performer Mister X is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princess Fedora Palinska to pose as a nobleman and marry her. Mister X is himself a nobleman, the disinherited nephew of a deceased prince.

Hoheit tanzt Walzer

Libretto · Musical · 1912

Lisi loves the poor Aloisius, but her father hopes she will marry the wealthy innkeeper Plunderer. Peperl Geschwandtner lends the young couple money to open an inn, though Plunderer schemes to ruin their business. Princess Marie, tired of court life, visits their inn incognito. Geschwandtner mistakes her for a domestic and falls in love with her. The Princess secretly brings in the orchestra from Plunderer’s rival inn, making the Silver Pretzel a success. When the court carriage reveals her identity, her patronage secures the inn’s future. Marie must marry Prince Victor according to court protocol, but she supports Geschwandtner by appointing him music teacher to her younger siblings and Hofkapellmeister. Lisi and Aloisius marry.

The Rose of Stamboul

Libretto · Opera · 1916

Achmed Bey hopes to reform Turkish society but does not want to embarrass his politician father, so he publishes his ideas in French under the pseudonym André Léry. His book becomes popular among Turkish women. When his marriage to Kondja Gül is arranged, she confesses on their wedding night that she cannot love him because she has fallen for André Léry, not knowing the author is Achmed.

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