Operetten-Pasticcio

Everyone knows Fledermaus, The “Gypsy“ Baron and A Night in Venice. But Strauss wrote twelve other operettas hardly ever performed today. And they’re full of exquisite musical ideas. The line-up for this jubilee foray into unknown operetta territory is just as exquisite: Franz Welser-Möst directs
the Vienna Philharmonic, Christiane Karg and Piotr Beczała are the singers. They are exploring works beyond the well-known repertoire pieces – a heady mixture of the popular and the unknown.