Viktoria und ihr Husar

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Viktoria und ihr Husar (Victoria and Her Hussar) is an operetta in three acts and a prelude by Paul Abraham with a libretto by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda, based on a work by the Hungarian Emmerich Földes (also Emric or Imre Foeldes). It premiered on 21 February 1930 in Budapest (or on 23 December 1930 at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna).

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[edit] Roles

  • John Cunlight, American legate* (bass)
  • Countess Viktoria, his wife (soprano)
  • Count Ferry Hegedüs of Doroszma, her brother (buffo tenor)
  • O Lia San, Ferry's bride (soubrette)
  • Riquette, Victoria's chamber maid (soubrette)
  • Aladar Koltay, Hussar Cavalry Master (tenor)
  • Jancsi, his batman (tenor)
  • Pörkelty Istvan, mayor of Doroszma (baritone)
  • A Japanese bonze (baritone)
  • A Russian officer (spoken)
  • Japanese cavaliers and girls, guests, servants, chamber maids, coolies, Cossacks, Hussars.

*A legate is a member of the diplomatic corps, also: emissary.

[edit] Plot

Place and time: Siberia, Japan, Hungary; after 1918.

Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her first love, the Hussar captain Aladar Koltay, was killed in World War I. She marries the American legate John Cunlight and resettles at the American embassy in Tokyo. Koltay reappears, alive; the American generously releases Viktoria from their union.

[edit] Notable arias

  • Ungarland, Donauland (or Ungarland, Heimatland)
  • Pardon, Madame, ich bin verliebt
  • Meine Mama war aus Yokohama, aus Paris ist der Papa
  • Nur ein Mädel gibt es auf der Welt
  • Mausi, süß warst du heute Nacht
  • Reich mir zum Abschied noch einmal die Hände
  • Ja so ein Mädel, ungarisches Mädel
  • An der Neva

[edit] Movie adaptations

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