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
Saturday, 03. September 202219.30 o' clock Gstaad ⁄ Festivalzelt
Viennese operetta gala at the 66th Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy
Alfred Eschwé conductor Polina Pasztircsák soprano Dovlet Nurgeldiyev tenor
Program Franz Lehár : Overture to « Viennese Woman» Emmerich Kálmán : «Grüß mir mein Wien» aus der Operette «Gräfin Mariza» Johann Strauss II : Tick Tock / Quick polka op. 365 Emmerich Kálmán : «Heia, in den Bergen» aus der Operette «Die Csardasfürstin» Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 : «Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol» from the operetta «Der Vogelhändler» Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Break Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Rudolf Sieczyński : Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume / Lied Franz Lehár : Zwanzinetta based on motifs from the operetta «Eva» Franz Lehár : Vilja-song from the operetta "The Merry Widow" Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Franz Lehár : Lips are silent, Duet from «The Merry Widow» Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79
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