Lehár’s Count of Luxemburg in an All-Star Cast
Franz Lehár (1870 – 1948)
The Count of Luxemburg
Daniel Behle René, Count of Luxemburg
Camilla Nylund Angèle Didier
Louise Alder Juliette Vermont
Simon Bode Armand Brissard
Sebastian Geyer Prince Basil Basilowitsch
Margit Neubauer Countess Stasa Kokozow
Ludwig Mittelhammer Sergej Mentschikoff
Ingyu Hwang Pawel von Pawlowitsch
Gurgen Baveyan Pélégrin
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra
Choir of the Frankfurt Opera
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
The world premiere of this operetta conducted by Robert Stolz at the Theater an der Wien in 1909 was an unbelievable success and was then performed 300 times in a row at that same theatre. These are numbers such as we only hear of today in connection with such musicals as Mamma Mia. Melodies such as Lieber Freund, man greift nicht nach den Sternen and Bist Du’s, lachendes Glück can certainly explain this success.
This recording also offers a pair of operatic stars with Camilla Nylund and Daniel Behle.