Victoria et son Hussard by Abraham, Du (2021/2022), Dirigé par Patric Seibert, Chef d'orchestre Peter Christian Feigel, Michael Wendeberg, Oper Halle, Halle, Allemagne

The operetta travels around the world. »Viktoria and her Hussar« starts in the freezing cold in a Siberian prisoner of war camp, to tell us about the American embassies in cute Tokyo (Act 1) and rough St. Petersburg (Act 2) with the dashing Rittmeister Stefan Koltay and his funny boy Janczi. to the sunny, blissful vineyards of southern Hungary. Escape to home is also Stefan and Viktoria's escape to happiness. Something had broken them. Then the war broke out. Viktoria took the American ambassador, but Stefan didn't give up hope. Are you rubbing your eyes? We also! Fritz Löhner-Beda is the exemplary operetta librettist of the 1920s for Patric Seibert, who staged »Viktoria and her Hussar« at the Halle Opera. Löhner-Beda and Paul Abraham started their successful jazz trilogy with the post-war story. »Viktoria« (1930) was followed by »Die Blume von Hawaii« (1931) and the »Fledermaus« remake »Ball im Savoy« (1932). With cool rhythms, witty relationship duels, the glamor of the big wide world and an unerring sense for everything that ignites on stage, they reinvented the operetta. With Stefan and Viktoria they thought of the First World War. What if you move the play to just after the second? To the Russian POW camps of 1945. To Japan after Hiroshima. Cold War Leningrad. In Hungary before the uprising. Why did Victoria run away with the American ambassador? With this time shift, Seibert, who staged »Die Blume von Hawaii« in Coburg and a Löhner-Beda evening in Cottbus, gives us back the undertones that the play must have had for the people of 1930. He works with Franziska Krötenheerdt in the title role with an actress whom he has known for a long time and who makes the operetta true and funny for him. And when you leave the Halle Opera, she will say "My Mama, comes from Yokohama" and he will say "Mausi,