It might be surprising to know that one of the most popular operetta’s for today’s audiences had to fight for its first production against several naysayers. Librettists Viktor Leo and Leo Stein put together the German libretto for the operetta after seeing a production of Henri Meilhac’s L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) and originally engaged Richard Heuberger as composer. Franz Lehár was their second choice but, even when the score was nearly complete, the Theater an der Wien still tried to stop the premiere from going ahead, believing that Lehár was incapable of producing
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