FULL Das Spitzentuch der Königin (Strauss Johann jr) Vienna 2025 Diana Haller, Elissa Huber, Beate Ritter, Regina Schörg

Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Das Spitzentuch der Königin  
- Composer: Strauss Johann jr.  
- Libretto: Heinrich Bohrmann, Richard Genée, Julius Rosen und O. F. Berg    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Theater an der Wien, Vienna Austria  
- Recorded: January 18, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Diana Haller, Elissa Huber, Beate Ritter, Regina Schörg, Maximilian Mayer, Michael Laurenz, Istvan Horvath, Alexander Strömer, Ilyà Dovnar, Carl Kachouh, Daniel Llano Cano, David Neumann
- Conductor: Martynas Stakionis  
- Orchestra: Vienna Chamber Orchestra  
- Chorus: Arnold Schoenberg Choir  
- Chorus Master: Erwin Ortner  
- Choreographer: Evamaria Mayer  
- Stage Director: Christian Thausing   
- Stage Designer: Timo Dentler, Okarina Peter  
- Costume Designer: Timo Dentler, Okarina Peter  
- Lighting Designer: Sebastian Alphons, Karl Wiedemann  
Information about the Recording
- Published by: 3sat, Unitel  
- Date Published: 2025  
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs  
- Video Recording from: 3sat Mediathek     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
To mark the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss’s birth in 2025, his operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin will return to the stage of its premiere on January 18. The Waltz King’s seventh operetta in 1880 immediately became his greatest success to date, as it was obviously a parody of the rebellious Crown Prince Rudolf, whose liberal ideas were causing problems for the Habsburg monarchy.
Portugal is under the thumb of an unscrupulous prime minister who wants to sell the country to the Spanish crown. And since the young king is as uninterested in politics as he is in his queen, but devotes himself exclusively to delicious truffle pies and extramarital adventures, Portugal is threatened with ruin. Fortunately, the poet Cervantes, fleeing from his henchmen, ends up in Lisbon, where he meddles in state affairs with great humor, saves the country and gets plenty of inspiration for his satirical novel Don Quixote. After Crown Prince Rudolf’s scandalous suicide in Mayerling in 1889, the work suddenly disappeared from the repertoire. However, Strauss adopted the main musical motif in his concert waltz Rosen aus dem Süden, which is still very popular today. Das Spitzentuch der Königin is a cornucopia of wonderful catchy tunes, and the fact that Strauss had the whole of Portugal dancing the waltz leaves no doubt as to which monarchy is being ridiculed here…