Ball im Savoy

ABOUT PERFORMANCE

The pivotal episode unfurls at a ball, where Aristide has an assignation with an old flame, the dancer Tangolita. Yet he has no inkling that his wife, Madeleine, has got wind of his intention and decided to attend the ball too, with a close friend of hers, Daisy, who has just returned from America. No one knows that Daisy is the famous composer Pasodoble. Mustapha Bey, the Turkish attaché, falls in love with Daisy, while Célestin, a timid young lawyer, is enchanted by Madeleine ...

All these entangled situations are accompanied by irresistible tones of vertiginous music, engrossing melodies and jazz rhythms, Hungarian dances, Viennese waltz and klezmer. The sophisticated, entertaining modern revue operetta will be adapted by the stage director Martin Čičvák and the conductor Jan Kučera. The State Opera, formerly the Neues deutsches Theater, presented Ball im Savoy in 1933, following which it has been performed in Brno, Ostrava, Opava, Olomouc and Teplice, as well as at the Karlín Music Theatre in Prague.

After nine decades, the operetta is now returning to the State Opera, as part of the Musica non grata project.

CAST AND CREATIVES

Madeleine de Faublas - Vanda Šípová, Doubravka Součková
Marquis Aristide de Faublas - Csaba Kotlár, Jiří Hájek
Daisy Darlington alias José Pasodoble - Lucie Hájková, Barbora Perná
Mustafa Bej - Tomáš Kořínek, Josef Moravec, Daniel Matoušek
Tangolita - Angela Nwagbo, Linda Caridad Fernandez Saez
Archibald - Richard Haan
and more.

State opera Chorus
State opera Orchestra

Conductor: Jan Kučera, Anna Novotná-Pešková

Libretto: Alfred Grünwald, Fritz Löhner-Beda
Stage director: Martin Čičvák
Set design: Hans Hoffer
Costume design: Georges Vafias
Lighting design: Jan Dörner
Choreography: Laco Cmorej
Chorus master: Adolf Melichar
Dramaturgy: Jitka Slavíková