“The Violet of Montmartre”: Despite the rubbish, it’s a great piece! | free press

2023-04-27 16:38:00

The violet from Montmartre – that sounds something like: the sparrow of Paris. But it has nothing to do with Edith Piaf, but is the title of an operetta by Emmerich Kálmán (1882 – 1953) that is almost forgotten today. The inventor of the “Csardasfürstin” and the “Countess Mariza” does not have a noble biography even in the case of his 1930 in Vienna…