Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love)

This was composed in 1909 and is a worthy equal to the composer’s other operettas in terms of imaginative content, visual ideas and instrumental colouring. After the sensational success of the... — New Classics, May 2017 More…

Release Date: 13th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: 109310
Label: Arthaus Musik
Series: Operetta Films

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Janet Perry (Zorika), Ion Buzea (Józsi), Adolf Dallapozza (Jonel Bolescu), Colette Lorand (Ilona), Heinz Friedrich (Peter Dragotin), Kurt Großkurth (Mihály/Moschu)
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg

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With his operetta “Gypsy Love”, premiered in 1910, Franz Lehár succeeded in combining the dramatic genre of opera with rousing Viennese waltzes and Hungarian folksongs. Dragotin has promised the hand of his daughter Zorika to the rich Jonel. Shortly before the engagement is formalised, the nature-loving

Zorika comes across the gypsy Józsi on the Czerna, a mountain river in Romania inhabited by mermaids, and invites him to play music at her engagement party. But when it comes to the engagement kiss from Jonel, she takes fright and fl ees back to the Czerna, where she hopes a glass of water from the river will reveal the future to her …

Sound Format: PCM Stereo

Picture Format: 4:3

Subtitles: DE (Original Language), EN, FR

Region Code: 0

Running Time: 88 mins

DVD 9 / NTSC

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New Classics May 2017

This was composed in 1909 and is a worthy equal to the composer’s other operettas in terms of imaginative content, visual ideas and instrumental colouring. After the sensational success of the Merry Widow (1905), Lehár quickly wrote an operetta that displayed real Parisian flair.

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Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love)

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