Die Dollarprinzessin

Die Dollarprinzessin
Operetta by Leo Fall
Cover of the vocal score
Librettist
Premiere
2 November 1907 (1907-11-02)
Theater an der Wien, Vienna

Die Dollarprinzessin is an operetta by Leo Fall. The German libretto was by Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum after the comedy Die Dollarprinzessinen by Emerich von Gatti and Thilo Friedrich Wilhelm von Trotha.[1]

Performance history

It was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 2 November 1907, conducted by the composer and starring Mizzi Günther as Alice. An English adaptation, called The Dollar Princess opened in London at Daly's Theatre on 25 September 1909 and ran for 428 performances.

Extant score

Click for a scanned version of the 79-page score from Leeds University Library

A piano score with German lyrics (but no vocal parts) is kept in Special Collections at the University of Leeds. It was digitised as part of a research project in 2018.[2]

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast, 2 November 1907
Conductor: Leo Fall[3]
Alice soprano Mizzi Günther
Fredy Wehrburg tenor Louis Treumann
Hans Freiherr von Schlick bass Karl Meister
Daisy soprano Louise Kartousch
John Couder
Dick
Tom
Frinton
Mizzi
Olga Labinska
Von Richthofen

References

  1. ^ "Dollarprinzessin, Die", Josef Weinberger Ltd
  2. ^ Scott, Derek B. (2019). "GOLNY archive – Die Dollarprinzessin – Operette in 3 Akten" (in English and German). A. M. Willner, Fritz Grünbaum, Leo Fall. University of Leeds. doi:10.5518/497.
  3. ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Die Dollarprinzessin, 2 November 1907". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).

Further reading