Franz von Suppè composed the music for more than 180 works of entertainment for the stage. They vary in length between one and five acts and most of them fill a whole evening. There is a great deal of variation in the way the genres are described, although the dividing lines between them are often fluid: operetta, farce, character sketch, vaudeville, magic tale, fairy tale and so on. Opera is the only genre of which there are hardly any examples to be found in Suppè’s oeuvre, although it is precisely Pique Dame that is described with journalistic licence in the review of the premiere in the Fremden-Blatt newspaper on 25 June 1864 as a ‘comic opera in two acts’. Today most of these works are unknown or it is only individual numbers that are have survived, as is often the case with the overture. The first performance of the operetta Pique Dame took place at the Thaliatheater in Graz on 22 June 1864. It was for this theatre that the work was composed. Suppè himself conducted the final rehearsal and also the premiere. The few reviews that there are of it in the Vienna dailies do not go into detail but are all positive. The audience rewarded both the composer and the protagonists with much applause. The many beautiful melodies were praised, and especially the overture, which had to be repeated. Individual numbers were brought out in printed editions by Franz Glöggl, a music publisher in Vienna, who also put on sale a potpourri and a quadrille based on melodies from the operetta, both arranged by Alexander Leitermayer, a popular conductor. The overture soon found its way into the concert programmes of both private orchestras in Vienna and military bands. It was also well-suited to performances with very large ensembles, for example as the opening piece of a ‘Monster Concert’ at Schwender’s Colosseum in Rudolfsheim on the outskirts of Vienna on Sunday 11 March 1866, where it was played by four military bands with a total of 160 musicians.
Friday, 01. May 201511.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert for National Holiday
Alfred Eschwé conductor Anita Goetz soprano
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the Operetta «Indigo and the Forty Thieves» Gaetano Donizetti : Aria of Norina «So anch'io la virtú», from the Opera «Don Pasquale» Josef Strauss : Artists's Greeting / Polka française op. 274 Josef Strauss : Jockey / Quick polka op. 278 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Johann Strauss II : « Happy Is He Who Forgets!», Polka Mazurka op. 368 Giacomo Puccini : Aria of Lauretta «O mio babbino caro», from the opera «Gianni Schicchi» Johann Strauss II : City Hall Ball Dances / Waltz op. 438 Break Franz von Suppè : Overture to the Operetta «Pique Dame» Johann Strauss II : Arie der Annina «Was mir der Zufall gab» aus der Operette «Eine Nacht in Venedig» Johann Strauss II : Enjoy Life! / Waltz op. 340 Johann Strauss II : March of Rejoicing at the Deliverance of Emperor Franz Joseph I op. 126 Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 201 Johann Strauss II : Tick Tock / Quick polka op. 365 Franz Lehár : «Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß», Song from Operetta «Giuditta» Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Encore Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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