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Article: Viennese operetta Weeping fans.(recent offerings for operetta in Vienna draw criticism because they are not traditional form )(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 31, 1998
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VIENNA
CAN there be life and laughter left in Viennese operetta? Before the first world war, works by composers and librettists from all over the Habsburg empire played in every theatrical capital. The newest confections whipped up in Viennese cafes or summer villas at Bad Ischl were trotted out like Sachertorten and Kaiserschmarren; some claim these popular musical-theatre pieces even helped cement together the old kuche-und-kirche empire. After it collapsed, nostalgia had an even greater appeal(providing welcome relief in the early 1930s from ruinous inflation, world depression and(for Austrians who did not welcome them_the rise of the Nazis. Radio and films ...
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