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Humperdinck called his greatest hit a “Kinderstubenweihfestspiel” (a festival play for the consecration of the nursery) and the course of time has proven this joke appropriate: while Parsifal around Easter is the high point of the year for Wagnerians, Hänsel und Gretel at Christmastime is for everybody (including all those who claim they can’t stand Wagner and ignore the influence he had on Humpe

After twelve long years, Oscar Straus’ Ein Walzertraum has made it back to the Volksoper, the place where it belongs for its indestructible Viennese spirit and never-ending popularity, and where Robert Meyer, the house’s boss and director on this occasion, customarily ensures that the traditional operetta is sheltered from modernist conceptual stagings.

In Matthias Davids' Inszenierung hat Offenbachs Gute-Laune-Musik und böses Gemüse immer Saison.

Späßchen hier und dort, ein paar Überraschungsmomente: Benatzkys musikalische Komödie ist ein unterhaltsamer Abend an der Volksoper.