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In Austria in 1743, tenants Nikola and Mariza marry without Baron Trenck’s permission. The Baron rescues Countess Lydia from a kidnapping attempt, and she flees on horseback with the tenants’ help. At the Empress’s chateau, Lydia is pressured to marry an elderly French ambassador, but the opera ends with her joining the Baron.
English-language adaptation of the 1908 comic opera with additional music. Countess Lydia escapes a forced marriage and joins Baron Trenck after he rescues her from kidnappers.
Impoverished Count René enters a sham marriage with opera singer Angèle so she can gain a title and marry Prince Basil. They are kept apart during the ceremony, but meet and fall in love months later without realizing they are already married. When the prince is ordered to marry his former fiancée and René’s property is restored, René can repay the prince and remain with Angèle; Armand and Juliette also decide to marry.
A German operetta by Franz Lehár, first performed in 1914 and revised in 1930 with a new text under the title Schön ist die Welt.
Zorika, daughter of a Romanian landowner, is engaged to the nobleman Jonel but is drawn to his half-brother Joszi, a violinist. She plans to elope with Joszi and falls asleep by the Cerna River, where a dream shows her traveling with the Romani and discovering that Joszi will not marry her. Waking beside the river, she recognizes that her true love is Jonel.
The Gay Hussars is the English adaptation title of Emmerich Kálmán’s three-act operetta, first performed in Hungarian as Tatárjárás.
In Austria in 1743, tenants Nikola and Mariza marry without Baron Trenck’s permission. The Baron rescues Countess Lydia from a kidnapping attempt, and she flees on horseback with the tenants’ help. At the Empress’s chateau, Lydia is pressured to marry an elderly French ambassador, but the opera ends with her joining the Baron.
English-language adaptation of the 1908 comic opera with additional music. Countess Lydia escapes a forced marriage and joins Baron Trenck after he rescues her from kidnappers.
Impoverished Count René enters a sham marriage with opera singer Angèle so she can gain a title and marry Prince Basil. They are kept apart during the ceremony, but meet and fall in love months later without realizing they are already married. When the prince is ordered to marry his former fiancée and René’s property is restored, René can repay the prince and remain with Angèle; Armand and Juliette also decide to marry.
A German operetta by Franz Lehár, first performed in 1914 and revised in 1930 with a new text under the title Schön ist die Welt.
Zorika, daughter of a Romanian landowner, is engaged to the nobleman Jonel but is drawn to his half-brother Joszi, a violinist. She plans to elope with Joszi and falls asleep by the Cerna River, where a dream shows her traveling with the Romani and discovering that Joszi will not marry her. Waking beside the river, she recognizes that her true love is Jonel.
The Gay Hussars is the English adaptation title of Emmerich Kálmán’s three-act operetta, first performed in Hungarian as Tatárjárás.