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Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will: Komische Oper Berlin

About the Event

Oscar Straus‘s sparkling 1932 masterpiece premiered at the legendary Metropol Theatre, which is today the Komische Oper Berlin. Now this jewel of an operetta is 'coming home'.

Manon Cavallini is an operetta diva worshipped by all the men around her. Raoul Severac has also succumbed to her charms – much to the displeasure of young Lucy, who is head over heels in love with the fashionable bachelor. She begs the older woman to give up Raoul and leave him to her but what Lucy doesn't know is that Manon is her mother!

The Viennese composer Oscar Straus was one of the best‐known operetta and film composers in the 1920s and 30s and was a colleague of composer Arnold Schönberg's at the Überbrettl Kabarett in Berlin. He also achieved great success writing for Hollywood whilst in American exile. In this operetta, alongside lively marches and stormy waltzes, he creates incomparable chansons (offerings?) such as 'That Thing Called Love' and 'Why Shouldn't a Woman Have an Affair?' She should. Especially if she's a woman who knows what she wants!

Musical comedy in two acts (1932). Text by Alfred Grünwald by Louis Verneuil.

Cast / Production

Condcutor: Adam Benzwi
Director: Barrie Kosky,
Arrangement: Adam Benzwi, Pavel B. Jiracek and Barrie Kosky
Costumes: Katrin Kath
Dramaturgy: Pavel B. Jiracek
Light: Diego Leetz

Soloists: Dagmar Manzel and Max Hopp

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