classic pure - Operette "Guiditta" von Franz Lehár

"Giuditta" by Franz Lehár

Foreign legionnaire Octavio is waiting in a Spanish port city for his embarkation to North Africa. There he meets the life-hungry, married Giuditta. The two fall in love and Giuditta follows Octavio to Africa.

Foreign legionnaire Octavio is waiting in a Spanish port city for his embarkation to North Africa. There he meets the life-hungry, married Giuditta. The two fall in love and Giuditta follows Octavio to Africa. After weeks of dreaming of love, Octavio is called up. Giuditta stays behind, disappointed. When Octavio leaves the army out of longing for Giuditta in order to fetch her, their lives have already taken a different turn...

In his last operetta, Franz Lehár's dream of being premiered at the Vienna State Opera has come true: Jarmila Novotná and tenor superstar Richard Tauber launched the work there in 1934.