Ball im Savoy

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The operetta tells a “crazy” story full of funny conspiracies, confusion and romantic tension, with the main plot built around a fidelity test a newlywed couple have been put to. They have just returned home from their honeymoon and it seems that nothing can threaten their happy future. But on the very day of their return, the newlywed Marquis Aristide receives a letter from a certain “Prefect of Nancy”. And problems in the paradise seem to come up: the real writer of the letter is the sexy dancer Tangolita, Aristide´s former lover, who requires to meet him at the ball at the Savoy Hotel. And the Marquis decides to attend the ball… 

 

Composer Paul Abraham has used a mix of European jazz, Hungarian czardas, tango, klezmer and classic Viennese operetta to conjure up an utterly carefree world in which one hit follows another, and, as in any good operetta, there are sopranos singing to the heavens and magical love duets. There are also musical or revue-like acts a la Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, in short, an absolute relax! 

 

State Opera Chorus

State Opera Orchestra

National Theatre Opera Ballet

Program and cast

Conductor: Anna Novotná Pešková

Madeleine de Faublas: Vanda Šípová

Marquis Aristide de Faublas: Jiří Hájek

Daisy Parker alias José Pasodoble: Lucie Hájková

Mustafa Bej: Tomáš Kořínek

Tangolita: Adéla Abdul Khaleg

Archibald: Richard Haan

Célestin Formant, lawyer: Jakub Svojanovský

Owner of a fashion house: Zbyněk Šporc

 

Creatives

Libretto - Alfred Grünwald; Fritz Löhner-Beda

Czech translation of lyrics and Czech dialogues - Vlasta Reittererová

Stage director - Martin Čičvák

Set design - Hans Hoffer

Costume design - Georges Vafias

Light design - Jan Dörner

Choreography -  Laco Cmorej; Silvia Beláková

Dramaturgy - Jitka Slavíková

Video projection - Michael Hoffer

Chorus master - Adolf Melichar

 

Approximate running time: 3 hours, 1 intermission (30 minutes) minutes

Language: In Czech, surtitles in Czech, English

Prague State Opera

The State Opera today

 

The State Opera (formerly the State Opera Prague, between 1948 and 1992 the Smetana Theatre, and originally the New German Theatre) has been a part of the National Theatre since 2012. The Opera and Ballet ensembles give repertory performances at the State Opera.

 

History

 

The Prague State Opera resides in the building which on January 5, 1888 was opened as a Prague German stage with the performance of Wagner’s opera, The Mastersingers of Nürnberg. In the 19th century, Prague Germans performed in the Estate’s Theater in alternation with a Czech company. Desire for their own theater led to negotiations in 1883 for the construction of a new theater building for the German Theater Association. Over the next three years, a blueprint was drawn up and handed over to the Vienna atelier of Fellner and Hellmer. Also sharing in the design was the architect of the Vienna Municipal Theater, Karl Hasenauer, while Prague architect Alfons Wertmüller took part in the construction. Financing came from private collections. With its spacious auditorium and neo-Rococo decoration, this theater building is among the most beautiful in Europe.

 

Access:

 

By car

On Wilsonova street, from the left lane close to the State Opera building take the slip road to the Slovan above-ground garage. The parking fee is 40 CZK/h.

 

By tram

 

By daytime tram No. 11 to the stop “Muzeum”, through the underpass beneath Legerova street in the direction of the NationalMuseum, at the crossroads turn right along the NewBuilding of the NationalMuseum.

 

By daytime trams Nos. 3, 9, 14 and 24 or night trams Nos. 51, 52, 54, 55, 56 and 58 to the stop “Václavské náměstí”, then by foot uphill on the left side of the Wenceslas Square to the traffic lights across Wilsonova and Vinohradská streets. Then turn left along the NewBuilding of the NationalMuseum.

 

By metro

To the “Muzeum” station, lines A and C (green and red), and then by foot along the NewBuilding of the NationalMuseum.

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