Music by Johann Strauss (Father & Son). Selected and arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner
SYNOPSIS
This story of the tension between Strauss the elder and Strauss the younger, engendered by the son’s ambitions to succeed his father as the Waltz King of Vienna, is delightfully woven around a score which is a collection of some of the greatest light music ever composed. It tells of the star-crossed romance between young Johann and the attractive daughter of an engagingly-eccentric pastry-cook, and involves a helpfully-intriguing Countess and other endearing characters. Climaxed of course by the immortal “Blue Danube”, this is a feast of the music that set the whole world dancing and ‘did more good for humanity than a hundred thousand doctors’.
CHARACTERS
Johann Strauss I
Johann Strauss II (’Schani’)
Hieronymus Ebeseder
Therese
Kathi Pollinger
Franzi, Tini and Mali Pollinger
Ferdinand Wessely
Leopold Wessely
Countess Olga Barranskaja
Prince Sascha Gogol
Captain von Hohenau
Lieutenant Sternau
Gottfried Amadaus Drechsler
Dr Sebastian Brandl
Karl Friedrich Hirsch
Florian Dommayer
Stefan Kreider
Cyrill
Georg Homolka
Fanny Wiesinger
Frau Kratochwill
Pepi