Kálmán - Die Csárdásfürstin - Anna Moffo, René Kollo, Dagmar Koller
Produced 1971, released 2006
"This is a 1971 film version of the operetta with excellent picture and sound. Anna Moffo is the csardasfurstin (gypsy princess)-- a "lady of the stage" cabaret performer who charms a young Budapest aristocrat (Rene Kollo, who is already engaged to a lady of his class) into a socially awkward marriage proposal. Attractive settings and costumes complement the Eastern European flavor of the music and the light social commentary on class hypocrisy in this delightful production of Emmerich Kalman's 1915 operetta."
Produced 1971, released 2006
"This is a 1971 film version of the operetta with excellent picture and sound. Anna Moffo is the csardasfurstin (gypsy princess)-- a "lady of the stage" cabaret performer who charms a young Budapest aristocrat (Rene Kollo, who is already engaged to a lady of his class) into a socially awkward marriage proposal. Attractive settings and costumes complement the Eastern European flavor of the music and the light social commentary on class hypocrisy in this delightful production of Emmerich Kalman's 1915 operetta."
Composer - Emmerich Kálmán
Conductor - Bert Grund
Soloist - Anna Moffo, René Kollo
Orchestra - Symphonieorch. Kurt Graunke
Danced by - Operettentheater Budapest
Video Director - Miklós Szinetár
Emmerich Kálman (1882-1953) ranks next to Franz Lehár as one of the leading representatives of the "Silver Era" of the operetta, which was stamped above all by the works of the Austro-Hungarian cultural sphere, and which followed the classical period of the Viennese operetta. Kálmán's "Herbstmanöver", premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 1908, immediately confirmed the young composer's talent for this genre. The roots of the phenomenal originality of his melodies lie in his love of Hungarian gypsy music and his natural affinity for the Viennese waltz tradition, which characterize such musically original, international successes as the operettas "The Czardas Princess" (1915) and "Countess Maritza" (1924).
