http://operetta-research-center.org/die-afrikareise-franz-von-suppe/ The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://operetta-research-center.org/die-afrikareise-franz-von-suppe/#comment-1758 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:53:49 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=9176#comment-1758 BOCCACCIO was the greatest Vienna operetta hit of them all, in the 19th century. FLEDERMAUS and all the other Strauss titles did not even come close. And for some reason Suppé got this image of being a “boring old fart” compared to the more “funky” Strauss Jr. But that’s not true. Any composer who sleeps in a coffin and has skulls on his wallpaper is not “boring.” Strangely, noone wants to rediscover Suppé as a truly modern and extravagant man, and play his operettas accordingly. Is it the long shadow of Nazi times? (After all, it’s due to films such as OPERETTE by Willi Forst that Suppé got this dusty image.)

]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/die-afrikareise-franz-von-suppe/#comment-1757 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:47:04 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=9176#comment-1757 I’ve long thought Suppe was underrated and the run of Boccacio at the Volksoper in the 70s and 80s was a gem in all aspects.
Kurt Ganzl tells me that the later production was a big let-down, however. They had almost stopped believing in it.

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