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
Friday, 03. September 199919.00 o' clock Gstaad ⁄ Festivalzelt
Concert in Gstaad
Franz Bauer-Theussl conductor Eva Lind soprano
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : «Draußen in Sievering blüht schon der Flieder», Walzerlied aus der Operette «Die Tänzerin Fanny Elssler» Johann Strauss II : Tempestuous in Love and Dance op. 393 Johann Strauss II : Fata Morgana / Polka mazurka op. 330 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Johann Strauss II : Furioso Polka op. 260 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Johann Strauss II : Czárdás from "Die Fledermaus" Johann Strauss II : Tick Tock / Quick polka op. 365 Johann Strauss II : Russian March Fantasy op. 353 Johann Strauss II : At the Double! / Quick polka op. 348 Johann Strauss II : Spiel´ ich die Unschuld vom Lande, Couplet der Adele aus der Operette «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : «Mein Herr Marquis», Lachcouplet der Adele aus der Operette "Die Fledermaus" Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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