But what else can you expect from a Viennese operetta?
Composer Emmerich Kálmán was a Hungarian Jew who found fame in Vienna
during the 1910s and '20s with such operettas asDer Zigeunerprimas (The Gypsy Band Leader) and Countess Maritza. Perhaps he sensed that, despite his success, he
would always be a bit of an outsider in the world of Austrian high society
that embraced his music, which distinctively fused elegantly romantic
Viennese waltzes with the csárdás, a robust folk dance whose name
derives from a Hungarian word for "tavern."…
But what else can you expect from a Viennese operetta?
Composer Emmerich Kálmán was a Hungarian Jew who found fame in Vienna
during the 1910s and '20s with such operettas asDer Zigeunerprimas (The Gypsy Band Leader) and Countess Maritza. Perhaps he sensed that, despite his success, he
would always be a bit of an outsider in the world of Austrian high society
that embraced his music, which distinctively fused elegantly romantic
Viennese waltzes with the csárdás, a robust folk dance whose name
derives from a Hungarian word for "tavern."…