Dance Signals 2009
The Strauss Operetta Factory
Topicality – Social Criticism – Censorship – Music
Workshop – Kitsch
19 – 22 March 2009
Prelude
Thursday 19 March 2009, 3 p.m.
Music Collection of the Vienna Library in the Town Hall
Vienna 1, Bartensteingasse 9 / 1st floor
Thomas Aigner (Vienna), Introduction to the topic: The Viennese Operetta
Symposium 20 – 21 March 2009
Friday 20 March 2009
Lecture Hall (Grosser Hörsaal), Department of Music, University of
Vienna
University Campus AAKH / Court (Hof) IX
Entrance: Vienna 9, Garnisongasse 13
2.00 p.m Opening
– Birgit Lodes (Department of Music, University of Vienna)
– Eduard Strauss (Vienna Institute for Strauss Research)
– Norbert Rubey (Vienna Library in the Town Hall, MA 9)
The musical accompaniment will take the form of arrangements from the
1870s for violin and piano of pieces based on themes from operettas:
Johann Strauss II, Auf der Jagd, Schnell-Polka nach Motiven
der Operette Cagliostro in Wien, op. 373
Johann Strauss II, Methusalem-Quadrille nach Motiven der Operette
Prinz Methusalem, op. 376
Johann Strauss II, Kennst du mich? Walzer nach Motiven der Operette
Blindekuh (Blind Man’s Buff), op. 381
Jocelyne Rainer-Gibert, violin
Ingomar Rainer, piano
2.45 Break
3.00 Otto Brusatti (Vienna) : Why Strauss operettas fail …
3.30 Pierre Genée (Vienna): Richard Genée – a family
view
4.00 Break
4.30 Volker Klotz (Stuttgart): Richard Genée: Driving force and
sine qua non of Viennese operetta
5.00 Norbert Nischkauer (Vienna): ‘Your Majesty’
– censored
5.30 Marion Linhardt (Bayreuth): Between traditional roles and individuality.
Women’s roles in the Strauss operettas of the 1870s and early 1880s
6.00 Break
7.30 p.m. Workshop Concert:
Business opportunities –
operetta arrangements for every occasion
Judit Varga, piano
Norbert Rubey, presenter
Saturday 21 March 2009
Lecture Hall (Grosser Hörsaal), Department of Music, University of
Vienna
University Campus AAKH / Court (Hof) IX
Entrance: Vienna 9, Garnisongasse 13
9.00 a.m. Stefan Schmidl (Vienna): The operetta of the
Belle Époque in Vienna – described with the help of some
unfamiliar examples
9.30 Martin Lichtfuss (Vienna): ‘Stroked with bristles’: On
musical barbs in nineteenth-century Viennese operetta
10.00 Break
10.30 Fritz Schweiger (Salzburg): The symbolism of keys in the early
operettas of Johann Strauss II
11.00 Oswald Panagl (Salzburg): fell ill
11.00 Norbert Rubey (Vienna): The Strauss
& Genée Music Workshop – ‘where we share our
musical ideas’
11.30 Thomas Aigner (Vienna) The serbian Banat in the Operetta Jabuka
of Johann Strauss II
12.00 Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. Round Table Discussion: Is it still the time for Strauss Operettas?
Participants: Wolfgang Dosch (Vienna Conservatoire Private University),
Michael Lakner (Lehár Festival Bad Ischl), Martin Lichtfuss (University
of Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna), Norbert Linke (Duisburg University),
Christian Pollack (Vienna Conservatoire Private University), Christoph
Wagner-Trenkwitz (Volksoper Vienna); Chair: Otto Brusatti
3.30 End of the Symposium
6.40 p.m. Memorial Service for Eduard Strauss
II (1910–1969)
Schottenkirche (Unsere Liebe Frau zu den Schotten)
Vienna 1, Freyung 6
Johann Strauss II, Tu qui regis totum orbem
Franz Schubert, Deutsche Messe (D 872)
Schola Cantorum Choral Society conducted by Wolfgang Bruneder
Sunday 22 March 2009, 11.00 a.m.
Theater in der Josefstadt, Sträusselsäle
Vienna 8, Josefstädter Strasse 24
Matinée: Strauss Operetta – The Consequences
Laura Scherwitzl (soprano)
Günther Strahlegger (baritone)
Stephen Delaney (piano)
A surprise guest
Otto Brusatti (presenter)
Tickets at the box office of the Theater in der Josefstadt (for address
and online booking details visit www.josefstadt.org)
and at the box office of the Kammerspiele, Rotenturmstrasse 20, A-1010
Vienna. For telephone bookings with credit card call (+43 1) 42 700-300
Eduard Strauss
Translation: Leigh Bailey
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