The Johann Strauss Theater in Wieden, part of Vienna, Austria, was built in 1908 especially for operettas. It had a hall for 1,200 spectators in Baroque...
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whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose grandfather was Johann Strauss I. Born in Vienna, he was...
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libretto by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. It premiered in Vienna at the Johann Strauss Theater on 17 November 1915. Numerous film versions and recordings have...
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Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. It premiered in Vienna at the Johann Strauss Theater on 21 March 1930. For the 1932 performances at the Alhambra Theatre...
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January 1926, rather than the Vienna premiere which was at the Johann Strauss Theater on 30 October 1925 with Carl Clewing in the title role. Tauber's...
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premiered as Die Faschingsfee (The Carnival Fairy) in Vienna, at the Johann Strauss Theater, on 21 September 1917. A further revision of Die Faschingsfee was...
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is a complete list of the operettas written by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II (1825–1899). With the exceptions of Eine Nacht in Venedig and three...
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libretto by Rudolph Schanzer & Carl Lindau. It premiered at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna on 9 January 1910. When the work was later adapted into...
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Tom Cat and Johann Mouse played by Jerry Mouse live in the house of composer Johann Strauss. Whenever Strauss plays the piano, Johann comes out of his...
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The Strauss Dynasty (German: Die Strauß-Dynastie) is an Austrian biographical film in six parts from 1991. It depicts the careers of Johann Strauss (father)...
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Die Fledermaus discography (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
discography of Die Fledermaus, an operetta by Johann Strauss II, which was first performed on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Recordings of...
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Wiener Blut (operetta) (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
(Viennese Blood) is an 1899 operetta named after Johann Strauss II's eponymous 1873 waltz. It was made with Strauss' approval, but without his participation....
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acts Paul Knepler [de] and Béla Jenbach 30 October 1925 Vienna, Johann Strauss Theater Gigolette (revised version of La danza delle libellule) Operetta...
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Die Fledermaus (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered...
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it was released as Johann Strauss. Hans Junkermann as Johann Strauss I Gustav Fröhlich as Johann Strauss II Julia Serda as Strauss's mother Maria Paudler...
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Vom Donaustrande (category Compositions by Johann Strauss II)
by Johann Strauss II written in 1873. Its themes are drawn from his successful operetta, Der Karneval in Rom which premiered in Vienna's Theater an der...
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Frühlingsstimmen (category Waltzes by Johann Strauss II)
orchestral waltz, with optional solo soprano voice, written in 1882 by Johann Strauss II. Strauss dedicated the work to the pianist and composer Alfred Grünfeld...
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Wagner conducted there. Johann Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund were connected to the theater as actors and poets. Johann Strauss I performed in the Sträußelsälen...
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Rudolf Österreicher and Wilhelm Sterk [de] 27 February 1914 Vienna, Johann Strauss Theater Der Kriegsberichterstatter (together with: Edmund Eysler, Bruno...
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Maximilian Steiner (section Some notable premieres during Steiner's tenure at the Theater an der Wien)
composer Carl Millöcker, who became the Theater's Kapellmeister in 1869. When the first wife of Johann Strauss, jr., brought some of the composer's musical...
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Vienna Waltzes (category Ballets to the music of Johann Strauss II)
by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss, made as a tribute to Austria. It premiered on June 23, 1977 at the New York State Theater, performed...
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Explosions-Polka (category Compositions by Johann Strauss II)
Explosions-Polka, Op. 43, is a polka written by Johann Strauss II in 1847. The title was inspired by a discovery of guncotton or nitrocellulose by German...
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Eine Nacht in Venedig (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II. Its libretto was by F. Zell and Richard Genée based on Le Château...
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Theater an der Wien) and Madame Serafin (1911, premiered at the Neuen Operntheater, Hamburg but was a co-production with the Johann Strauss Theater in...
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Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
vierzig Räuber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Maximilian Steiner based on the tale "Ali...
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Das Spitzentuch der Königin (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
Spitzentuch der Königin (The Queen's Lace Handkerchief) is an operetta by Johann Strauss II. The libretto by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen and Richard Genée was based...
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Wiener Stadttheater (in Laudongasse) and the "Scala", the former Johann Strauss Theater, were also affected—the Bürgertheater was demolished in 1960. The...
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Cagliostro-Walzer (category Waltzes by Johann Strauss II)
by Johann Strauss II composed in 1875 based on themes from his operetta, Cagliostro in Wien which premiered on 27 February 1875 at the famous Theater an...
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Montmartre by Emmerich Kálmán at the Johann Strauss Theater in 1930 in Endlich allein by Franz Lehár at the Theater an der Wien and 1934 in Fanny in Bittner's...
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Berény's most successful operetta, Lord Piccolo, premiered at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna, Austria, in the German language on 9 January 1910. It...
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