Chicago Folks Operetta - Fall: The Rose Of Stambul

Leo Fall's early career mirrored that of his famous contemporary Franz Leh�r. Both were born in provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and soon moved to the Imperial capital, Vienna. There they both wrote a series of glorious operettas. Fall's The Rose of Stambul, set in Ottoman Turkey, is a sparkling masterpiece that ran for fifteen months, the most successful such work since Leh�r's The Merry Widow, composed eleven years earlier. The plot offers comedy, mistaken identity, cultural misunderstandings, exoticism, and, of course, a romance that must overcome various obstacles, while Fall's melodies are exquisitely beautiful, with numerous hit songs.Leo Fall was Leh�r's natural successor and wrote sparkling songs and ensemble numbers in operettas that, in the case of this one - The Rose of Stambul - was through-composed almost to an operatic extent. This recording is a perfect fit for lovers of Viennese operetta.