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6 - Staging Comedy: Operetta and Opera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2023

David Wyn Jones
David Wyn Jones
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Cardiff University
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The chapter discusses three aspects of the stage works of Johann Strauss (Son): the advantages of setting operettas in the past in order to comment on the present; the international distribution of many operettas (including America, Australia and India); and the notable failure of his only comic opera, written for the Court Opera House.

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Habsburg politics (past and present)Der ZigeunerbaronRitter PásmánSimpliciusDer lustige KriegRichard GenéeWagnerViennese identity
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The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna , pp. 212 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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