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Countess Maritza
(Gräfin Mariza)

Music by Emmerich Kálmán
Libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
First Performance at the Theater an der Wien, February 28, 1924

The Articles
Synopsis
Notes
Emmerich Kálmán
The Librettists
The Production
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
Gypsies
Fortune Telling
Operetta
The Csárdás and The Waltz

The Cast
(in order of appearance)
Berko, a gypsy
Tschekko, an old servant
Manja, a gypsy girl
Count Tassilo Endrödy-Wittenberg (Béla Törek)
Baron Karl Stephan Liebenberg
Prince Moritz Dragomir Popolescu-Potschescu
Countess Maritza
Countess Lisa, Tassilo's sister
Ilka, Maritza's friend
Princess Bozena Cuddenstein, Tassilo's aunt
Penizek, her servant
Farmworkers, guests, dancers, servants

Revised October 2005
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