Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this live television special became an annual Christmas tradition with rotating cast members.
A young girl becomes lost in a department store during the Christmas shopping rush. The frightened child is comforted by a department store Santa Claus who tells her a tale of storybook characters brought to life - of Tommy Tucker's love for the lovely Jane Piper and the cold-hearted villainy of evil Silas Barnaby. Through the girl's dreams, the viewer is transported to Toyland. Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this was its second live television special production, with some new cast members and some returning.
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?
Der junge Musiker und Komponist Josef lebt bei Beethovens Notenkopisten in Grinzing; abends spielt er im Prater zum Tanz auf, oft seine eigenen Melodien, um deren weitere Verbreitung er sich allerdings nicht groß bemüht, sind's doch fast alles Walzer, ein in Besserer Gesellschaft wenig angesehener, weil doch zu schwitziger Tanz. Als sich eines Abends eine quirlige Prinzessin - frisch aus dem Damenstift - inkognito unters Prater-Volk mischt und in den feschen Kapellmeister Josef verliebt, beginnt ein ganzes kulturelles Wertesystem zu bröckeln ... (Text: Filmarchiv Austria)
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Die Fledermaus eroberte sich nach der Wiener Uraufführung die Welt. Sie gehört zu den wenigen Operetten, die auch an den bedeutenden Opernhäuser wie der Metropolitan Opera, der Mailänder Scala, der Wiener Staatsoper und auch am Royal Opera House Convent Garden in London regelmäßig gespielt werden. John Cox führte 1977 in London bei einer verschwenderisch ausgestatteten Produktion die Regie im Bühnenbild von Julia Trevelyan Oman. Diese Inszenierung bot am Sylvesterabend 1990 das luxuriöse Ambiente für den Abschied von Joan Sutherland von ihrem Londoner Publikum, das die Sängerin seit ihren ersten großen Erfolgen an diesem renommierten Opernhaus in den fünfziger Jahren verehrte. Das rauschende Fest im zweiten Aufzug der Fledermaus erreichte seinen Höhepunkt durch ihren stürmisch umjubelten Auftritt und der Verpflichtung ihrer Freunde und Kollegen Luciano Pavarotti und Marilyn Horne, mit denen sie häufig zusammen auf der Bühne gestanden hat.
Julia de Weert wird volljährig. Damit erbt sie das Gestüt De Weert Nun ist die ganze Familie auf dem Gestüt eingetroffen, um sich ihre Anteile auszahlen zu lassen. Jeder versucht die höchste Summe zu bekommen.
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Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fortune in their home country of Pontevedro. Kelli O’Hara sings Valencienne, the flirtatious young wife of the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, Baron Zeta, played by Thomas Allen, and Alek Shrader is her suitor, Camille. Andrew Davis conducts the waltz-rich score, and the new English translation is by Jeremy Sams.
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.
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A film about Johnny Bode. Schlager diva, Operetta hero, filth musical innovator, enfant terrible, compulsive liar and amoral rogue. Johnny Bode (1912-1983) was very successful in Sweden and Europe. Yet he is today almost completely forgotten. Why? His life was so overwhelming, glamorous, fast and bizarre. So un-Swedish. He became fascinated by the nazism. Was arrested by the Gestapo and detained at Grini concentration camp in Norway. For five weeks. After the war he moved to East Berlin and proclaimed himself a dear friend of the GDR. Later he was deported and returned to Sweden. A time of fencing and small crimes followed. Escaped to Brussels at first and later Vienna. He was, as Juan Delgada, hired by the Vienna Opera to create new operettas. And was very successful. Johnny Bode died exhausted alone and abandoned in Malmö during the summer of 1983.
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Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.
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Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
Orpheus, Musikprofessor in Theben, ist froh, als ihm Pluto die untreue Gattin Eurydike stiehlt. Da kann er sich ungestört mit seinen Schülerinnen amüsieren. Aber so geht das nicht! Orpheus wird unter Druck gesetzt, Eurydike zurückzuholen, geht zu den Göttern auf dem Olymp und mit denen in die Unterwelt. Grandios und frech inszeniert.
Zurich Opera House production of Franz Léhar's operetta, with Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, and Ute Gfrerer in lead roles. Baron Zeta is desperate that the fabulously wealthy widow Hanna Glavari marry a Pontevedrian man so that her fortune remains in the country. He attempts to match her and his handsome attaché, Danilo. It turns out that Danilo and Hanna had had a love affair in years past. Nevertheless, Danilo now refuses to love her because he doesn't want to appear like he is only interested in her money...
Witty, fun, intoxicating film of Johann Strauss II's popular operetta, based on a stage production from Vienna State Opera; this is a showcase for the entire cast, but most especially Eberhard Wächter as the insufferably boorish Gabriel Eisenstein, and Gundula Janowitz as his long-suffering wife. Open the champagne, have yourself some torte, and enjoy this delectable comedy from Vienna.
"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
Diese Film-Version von 1973 der gleichnamigen Operette von Johann Strauss wurde vom tschechischen Dirigenten und Bühnenregisseur Vaclav Kaslik produziert. Die beliebte Operette, die durch die Karnevalsfeiern des 18. Jahrhunderts führt, zeigt Strauß anschaulich mit seinen besten Kompositionen und in seiner tiefen Liebe zu Italien. Die 1883 uraufgeführte Operette dreht sich um den Herzog von Urbino, einem Frauenhelden, und dessen Leibbarbier Caramello, die in einer Karnevalsnacht in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Liebeswirrungen geraten.
A story of three struggling artists: a painter, a poet, and a composer, living in a bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. They help a poor flower girl, Violette, to find shelter, when she is thrown out by her landlord.
Lehar romantic operetta set in Russia about a beautiful dancer who is set up to attract a tsar's son, and they fall in love. Beautiful settings and wonderful music.
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The story tells of the Army officer Octavio and his consuming love for Giuditta, a passionate spitfire, who leaves him because he refuses to desert the colours for her; their chance meeting several years afterwards comes too late, though they realise how much they have lost.
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda.
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.