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
Monday, 12. January 201511.00 o' clock Tokyo ⁄ Opera City (東京オペラシティタワー)
Concert in Tokyo Thirty-second Japan tour
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Express Polka / Polka schnell op. 311 Johann Strauss II : Be embraced, ye millions! / Waltz op. 443 Johann Strauss II : Town and Country / Polka mazurka op. 322 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Johann Strauss II : Orpheus Quadrille op. 236 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Anonymus : Toshi no hajime / Japanese Folk Song Johann Strauss II : Champagne Polka op. 211 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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