Operettengala «Ich schenk’ mein Herz»

To the play page

Thus sings Countess Dubarry, who has to survive several intrigues at the court of Versailles before she rises to become the influential maîtresse of Louis XV. Carl Millöcker, composer of the operetta of the same name, ranks alongside Johann Strauss Sohn as one of the most important representatives of the heyday of Viennese operetta, which would be so much poorer without his more than 100 stage works. As a young flautist in the orchestra of the Theater in der Josefstadt, the creator of The Beggar Student studied with Franz von Suppé, who was more than 20 years his senior and whose works will form the other focus of the program of this festive gala, as hardly any audience can resist the verve of Leichte Kavallerie or Boccaccio .