Zsuzsi kisasszony

• Princess Alexandra Maria
• Lori Aschenbrenner, chorus
• Viktor Ronai, painter
• Hubert von Berg Mützel
• Andreas Lubitschek
• Count Mereditt
• Lori
• Duke Ottokar Grevelingen

The Faschingsfee is a three-act operetta of Imre Kálmán in 1917. The libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Rudolf Austrians. The premiere took place on September 21, 1917 at the Johann Strauss Theatre in Vienna.

The operetta was filmed in 1931 by Hans Steinhoff with Victor de Kowa and Anny Ahlers.

Action

The painter Viktor Ronai is a feast because he has won a large cash prize. As one of the guests molested a beautiful young woman, Viktor switches and commands him stop. Now, however, turns out to be exactly this guest as the founder of the prize money and pulls it back now offended. Viktor is undoubtedly constitute as a cavalier, what reward earns him a passionate kiss of the unknown beautiful woman. This is the painter almost worth more than the now lost cash prize, and he paints the beauty even in the night from memory. The next day, everything else seems in order again, because the prize money is still lodged at the painter. But gradually transpires that the unknown has even paid the money.

As a result, there is a series of operetta typical misunderstandings - with a good end for Viktor and the unknowns that turns out to be the Princess Alexandra Mary.

Orchestration

The orchestration consists of two ( Piccolo ) flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one each timpani, percussion, harp, celesta and strings, the cast of two women and four men and the choir ( SATB).

• Operetta by Title
• Emmerich Kálmán
• Operetta from the 20th century
• Music 1917