Gypsy Princess (1971)

Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fortune in their home country of Pontevedro. Kelli O’Hara sings Valencienne, the flirtatious young wife of the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, Baron Zeta, played by Thomas Allen, and Alek Shrader is her suitor, Camille. Andrew Davis conducts the waltz-rich score, and the new English translation is by Jeremy Sams.

Главная героиня дважды вышла замуж — в США и во Франции, оба ее мужа об этом, само собой, не знают, но однажды встречаются и становятся друзьями.

Жена узнает о том, что муж постоянно ей изменяет. Их общий друг и знакомый Фальк решает подшутить над бедной семейной парой. Своей служанке, мечтающей стать актрисой, он дает пригласительный билет на бал-маскарад и костюм «летучей мыши», чтобы та «охмурила» незадачливого ловеласа. Этот разговор слышит жена и принимает решение тоже отправиться на бал, чтобы снова влюбить в себя собственного мужа, но только под маской.

A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.

Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social ladder.

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.

Performances from Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wachter, the Choir und Ballet der Bayerischen Staatsoper, and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Rosalinde, wife of Eisenstein, is having an affair with Alfred. Eisenstein is due to begin a prison sentence the next morning, and the prison governor, Frank, is expected to collect him at any moment. However, Eisenstein allows himself to be talked into attending a fancy dress ball by Dr Falke, and when Frank arrives to find Alfred with Rosalinde, he assumes him to be Eisenstein and carts him off to prison.

A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.

Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest and Vienna before the outbreak of the First World War, recorded at the Budapest Opera in 1963.

Оукли — мэр Нью-Йорка баллотируется на переизбрание. "Босс" Твид отвечает за его избирательную кампанию, и имеет фактически полный контроль над мэром. Он вовлечен во все виды незаконных действий и сильно обеспокоен статьями молодого репортера из "Нью-Йорк Таймс" по имени Джон Мэттьюс. Чтобы выиграть предвыборную гонку "Босс" решает покупать голоса избирателей — преступников и иммигрантов. Рози Мур и ее отец Тимоти прибывает в Америку из Ирландии. Девушка мечтает стать оперной певицей. Как только они сходят с теплохода, один из служащих "Босса" покупает их голоса по два доллара за голос, и они попадают в офис "Босса". Тимоти предлагают работу смотрителя парка, а девушке — перспективу стать певицей. Они с радостью соглашаются и не подозревают, что становятся марионетками в грязной игре "Босса" по растрате казенных денег…

Live television version of the classic musical.

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.

Johan Strauss Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) together with Die Fledermaus and Die Zigeunerbaron, has long been among the three most popular of the more than a dozen operettas composed by the 19th c. Waltz King. This Rudolf Bibl conducted performance was recorded live during the Seefestspiele Moerbisch Austria Festival in 1999 and features Marc Clear, Gideon Singer, Evelyn Schörkhuber , Ingrid Habermann, and Anton Steingruber.

A film about Johnny Bode. Schlager diva, Operetta hero, filth musical innovator, enfant terrible, compulsive liar and amoral rogue. Johnny Bode (1912-1983) was very successful in Sweden and Europe. Yet he is today almost completely forgotten. Why? His life was so overwhelming, glamorous, fast and bizarre. So un-Swedish. He became fascinated by the nazism. Was arrested by the Gestapo and detained at Grini concentration camp in Norway. For five weeks. After the war he moved to East Berlin and proclaimed himself a dear friend of the GDR. Later he was deported and returned to Sweden. A time of fencing and small crimes followed. Escaped to Brussels at first and later Vienna. He was, as Juan Delgada, hired by the Vienna Opera to create new operettas. And was very successful. Johnny Bode died exhausted alone and abandoned in Malmö during the summer of 1983.

Zurich Opera House production of Franz Léhar's operetta, with Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, and Ute Gfrerer in lead roles. Baron Zeta is desperate that the fabulously wealthy widow Hanna Glavari marry a Pontevedrian man so that her fortune remains in the country. He attempts to match her and his handsome attaché, Danilo. It turns out that Danilo and Hanna had had a love affair in years past. Nevertheless, Danilo now refuses to love her because he doesn't want to appear like he is only interested in her money...

As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.

"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

По мотивам либретто Л. Штейна и Б. Йенбаха. Будущий князь Воляпюк, а ныне просто самолюбивый молодой офицер по имени Эдвин и певица Сильва Вареску полюбили друг друга. Эдвин даже готов пойти наперекор воле знатных родителей и жениться — несмотря на неизбежный скандал. Но… В оперетте всегда появляется «но», и всегда не одно. И тем не менее цепь недоразумений, радостей, трагедий и разочарований должна прийти к счастливому концу, а искрящаяся музыка Имре Кальмана и блистательная игра советских актеров превращают путь к этому концу в настоящий праздник.