On the occasion of Johann Strauss’ 200th birthday in 2025, his operetta returns on Saturday, January 18th The Queen’s lace shawl back to the stage for its premiere. Intendant Stefan Herheim brings the operetta back to the program after 136 years; it marks the first staged production in the newly renovated Theater an der Wien.
Christian Thausings New production of Johann Strauss’ The Queen’s lace shawl is on premiere day live with a time delay at 8:15 p.m. on 3sat to see.
Ö1 also broadcasts live as part of the opera evening on January 18th at 7 p.m.
The Waltz King’s seventh operetta in 1880 immediately became his greatest success to date, because it was obviously a parody of the rebellious Crown Prince Rudolf, whose liberal ideas caused problems for the Habsburg Monarchy. Portugal is under the thumb of an unscrupulous prime minister who wants to sell the country to the Spanish crown. And since the young king is as uninterested in politics as he is in his queen, but devotes himself exclusively to delicate truffle pies and extramarital adventures, Portugal’s downfall is imminent. Luckily, the poet Cervantes, on the run from his captors, ends up in Lisbon, where he intervenes in state affairs with a lot of humor, saves the country and gets plenty of inspiration for his satirical novel “Don Quixote”. Strauss took over the main musical motif in his concert waltz “Roses from the South”, which is still very popular today. The Queen’s lace shawl is a cornucopia of beautiful catchy tunes, and the fact that Strauss made the whole of Portugal dance waltzes in it leaves no doubt as to which monarchy is being dragged through the cocoa here…
After Crown Prince Rudolf’s scandalous suicide in Mayerling in 1889, the work suddenly disappeared from the schedules.
For this re-encounter takes over Martynas Stakionis the musical direction of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and des Arnold Schoenberg Chor. In the production of Christian Thausing is a renowned ensemble of singers around Diana Haller, Elissa Huber, Beate Ritter, Regina Schörg, Maximilian Mayer, Michael Laurenz, István Horváth and Alexander Stromer to experience.
Interview dates
Premiere: January 18, 2025, 7 p.m. Dates: January 20, 22, 24, 28, 2025, 7 p.m. January 26, 2025, 3 p.m. Introductory matinee: January 5, 2025, 11 a.m.
Datum: January 18, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – January 28, 2025, 7:00 p.m
Art: Performances/stage
Ort: Theater in Vienna
Linke Wienzeile 6
1060 Wien
Austria
URL: https://www.theater-wien.at
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