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
Sunday, 04. June 199519.00 o' clock Comodoro Rivadavia ⁄ Teatro Maria Auxiliadora
Concert in Comodoro Rivadavia 4th South-America tour
Franz Bauer-Theussl conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240 Josef Strauss : Mysterious Powers of Attraction (Dynamiden) / Waltz op. 173 Josef Strauss : Heart of Woman / Polka mazurka op. 166 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Break Josef Strauss : Austrian Crown Prince March op. 59 Johann Strauss II : With Us at Home / Waltz op. 361 Josef Strauss : Scottish dance op. 20 Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
Comodoro Rivadavia ⁄ Teatro Maria Auxiliadora 9000 Comodoro Rivadavia Argentinia
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