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A Waltz Dream
(Ein Walzertraum)

Music by Oscar Straus
Libretto By Felix Dormann and Leopold Jacobson
Based on the short story Only the Prince Consort

by Hans Müller-Einigen
First Performance: Vienna, Carltheater, March 2 1907

The Articles
Synopsis
Notes
Oscar Straus
Composition and Production
  Austria-Hungary
Operetta
Vienna and the Waltz
All-Female Orchestras

Teachers' Resources

The Cast
Count Lothar
Wendolin, the Major-Domo
King Joachim XIII of Flausenthurm
Princess Helene, his daughter
Lieeutenant/Prince Nicholas (Niki)
Lieutenant Montschi
Friedericke von Insterburg, chief lady-in-waiting
Franzi Steingruber, conductors of a ladies' orchestra
Members or the Orchestra: Fifi, Annerl, Resi, Pepi, Mizzi, Lizzi, Fritzi, Minna
Soldiers, Couriers, Guests at the Beer Garden

Revised May2009
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