Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three acts by Karl Millöcker with a German libretto by Friedrich Zell (under the pseudonym of Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée, based on Les Noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. However, the librettists added the element of combining love and politics to the French comedy plots.
The work was performed first at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna,...
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Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three acts by Karl Millöcker with a German libretto by Friedrich Zell (under the pseudonym of Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée, based on Les Noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. However, the librettists added the element of combining love and politics to the French comedy plots.
The work was performed first at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, on December 6, 1882. It was a success and allowed Millöcker to retire from conducting. Johann Strauss II rejected the libretto in favor of A Night in Venice, but Millöcker's work turned out to be an enduringly popular operetta, with over 5,000 productions.
The piece played at the Thalia Theatre in New York City in 1883 and then in English at the Casino Theatre in 1883. It was revived in New York at least three times: in 1898 at the American Theatre, in 1899 at the American Theatre, and in 1913 at the Casino Theatre. It was also performed in...
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