Where�s our carriage?

 08.07.2008 05:37   day.kiev.ua

Emmerich Kalman�s The Violet of Montmartre (Das Veilchen vom Montmartre) stands out from the rest of his works. The dialogue of this piece of light opera is somewhat dull and the operetta was not exactly popular with audiences, although music critics called it the operetta version of Giacomo Puccini�s opera La Boheme . Kalman, a Hungarian composer, once admitted, �I know that half a page of a Liszt score will overshadow all my operettas.�

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