Various - Emmerich K�lm�n:Die Faschingsfee

In 1915 the Hungarian composer Emmerich K�lm�n celebrated what certainly qualifies as his greatest pubic success in the operetta metropolis of Vienna with Die Cs�rd�sf�rstin. For his next operetta, which beheld the light of the stage world at the Johann Strau� Theater in Vienna on 21 September 1917, K�lm�n and his librettists Alfred Maria Willner and Rudolf �sterreicher drew on a work that had already been presented with success in Budapest and had even conquered New York�s Broadway: it was thus that Zsuzsi kisasszony (Miss Susi) or Miss Springtime (Fr�ulein Fr�hling) became Die Faschingsfee (The Carnival Fairy) for the Viennese public of the war years. For it the three authors came up with a plot that is set in Munich during the Carnival season and in the twilight years of the monarchies in Bavaria and Austria-Hungary issued its appeal for the elimination of social strictures and the guarantee of the right to follow one�s own heart.