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Operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár, words by A. M. Willner and Heinz Reichert
FIRST NIGHT: August 15th, 2010 (Concert performance)
Aristide Girot, the Parisian boss of a factory, who spends time in Spain, tries to arrange the engagement of his daughter Dolly to his nephew Armand, an elegant gentleman. But Armand falls in love with a hot-blooded gypsy, the dancer Frasquita. On the other hand Dolly is attracted to the scientist Hippolyt, a close friend of Armand. Frasquita soon becomes the star of the Spanish nightclub “Alhambra” and takes her revenge on Armand – he had once falsely accused her of theft – by refusing his advances although she is madly in love with him… Later, in Armand’s apartment in Paris we find Dolly and Hippolyt have married. Girot attempts to reconcile the ever – quarrelling lovers Frasquita and Armand, and he succeeds. Before the great tenor Richard Tauber met Lehár he had already sung the role of Armand and made the serenade “Hab´ ein blaues Himmelbett (”farewell, my love, farewell”) world famous.
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