Waltz Rush at the Dresden State Operetta: Casanova and the Chastity Commission | free press

In Chemnitz, Sabine Hartmannshenn and her “Siegfried” belonged to the women’s director’s quartet of Wagner’s “Ring”. Now she has staged an operetta by Johann Strauss in Dresden that doesn’t actually exist: among the 15 works by the Viennese king of waltzes and operettas, one looks in vain for the title “Casanova”. But in 1928 Ralph Benatzky, who…