The formal opening of the Suez Canal -- linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian port of Suez, on the Red Sea -- was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days later. The opening of this artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in Vienna gave rise to Anton Bittner's burlesque, Nach Ägypten (Into Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene, that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of Johann Strauss's Ägyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert season in Pavlovsk -- shared that year with his brother Josef -- and had conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June, Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
Johann Strauss II. : Egyptian March op. 335 © by WJSO-Archive
Tuesday, 06. January 202619.00 o' clock Hokkaido ⁄ Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara
Concert at the Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Josef Strauss : Artists's Greeting / Polka française op. 274 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Carnival in Rome» Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
Hokkaido ⁄ Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara Sapporo Nakajima Park 1-15 〒064-0931 Hokkaido Hokkaido Japan Website Show Map
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