All about love (operetta)
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| Title: | All about love |
| Original title: | All about love |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Oscar Straus |
| Libretto : | Robert Bodanzky and Friedrich Thelen |
| Premiere: | November 9, 1914 |
| Place of premiere: | Johann Strauss Theater , Vienna |
| Place and time of the action: | Europe before 1914 |
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All about love is an operetta in 3 acts by the composer Oscar Straus and the librettists Robert Bodanzky and Friedrich Thelen. The first performance took place on November 9, 1914 in the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna .
action
Stella von Hempel-Heringsdorf was betrothed by her parents to Baron Hans von Öttingshausen, who was personally unknown to her. She decides to get to know her future son incognito, in the disguise as a flower girl. Should he not liked, it already has a Plan B developed. In that case she would marry Baron Mucki von Stilleben. At the same time, the designated husband Hans, who has already submitted to his fate and agreed to marry Stella, decides to celebrate his bachelorette party and experience one last love affair before marriage. However, this should also be done incognito. Therefore he simply exchanges identities with his body coach Vinzenz. In their respective disguises, the two then meet Stella and Steffi Bachmayer, who, as mentioned, are disguised as flower girls. The right couples come together in their respective disguise. Nothing changes in that, except that they reveal each other. The planned connection between Hans and Stella takes place. At the same time, Vinzent and Steffi find each other as a couple. A classic operetta happy ending.
reception
The work was well received by the public. It was performed 380 times in a row after the premiere and was the composer's most successful work after the waltz dream . Over the years, however, the popularity of this operetta fell sharply. It gradually disappeared from the repertoire, which was also due to an oversupply of such works, which more or less displaced each other from the repertoire of the theater. Today the work is rarely performed.
Sound carrier
A complete recording of the operetta was made in 1954 under the direction of Max Schönherr . The choir and orchestra of the Wiener Rundfunk sang and played. As soloists u. a. with: Sonja Knittel , Emmerich Arleth , Magda Steiner, Viktor Braun, Fried Liewehr and Lotte Ledl . This recording was released in 2011 as a double CD under the Line label.
Well-known song numbers
I already know what I want
I would like to have a Schwipserl
There are things that have to be forgotten