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Individual songs from "The Count of Luxemburg" are well known and have become standard in the classic musik, notably  "Lieber Freund, man greift nicht nach den Sternen", "Bist Du’s, lachendes Glück" and "Mädel klein, Mädel fein".

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"The Count of Luxembourg"

 

 
In the 49th year of the Mörbisch Festival the operetta "The Count of Luxembourg" by Franz Lehár will celebrate its premiere on the festival's stage.
 
At the very first performance at the ' Theater an der Wien'  the "Count of Luxembourg" was met with frenzied approval and after more than 300 presentations en suite it swept the world.
 
Franz Lehár created an effective score meandering between lyric and stormy music and enchanting scenes whose stage effectiveness has lost nothing of its charm it once had. And there is no better place than Mörbisch for staging this musical play.

Content:

Paris at the turn of the century – a carefree society of painters and artists are talking about the famous singer Angèle Didier and her patron, prince Basil Basilowitsch.

A marriage is talked about behind closed doors but the middle class origin of the singer is a hindrance. The prince doesn´t let that stop him and plans for his lover a bogus marriage between her and the count of Luxemburg, René. With the promise of a noble title Angèle agrees and the impoverished René can be persuaded by 500.000 Francs from the prince...