- Strauss Jr. wrote his ninth operetta, A Night in Venice (Eine Nacht in Venedig), in 1883.
- The libretto was written by F. Zell (Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée, based on an existing French operetta called Le Château Trompette.1
- Zell and Genée were actually accused of plagiarism by one critic after the operetta’s premiere. The librettists consequently added the acknowledgement, “freely adapted from a French source,” to the work’s credits.
- The libretto was written by F. Zell (Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée, based on an existing French operetta called Le Château Trompette.1
- The story is set in 18th-century Venice during Carnival. Read the operetta’s synopsis via the Volksoper Wien.
- While the operetta is among the composer’s best-known stage works, the initial reception was mixed. Audiences didn’t respond well to the libretto, saying that the piece had little to no actual plot.2
Sources
- “Eine Nacht in Venedig (Strauss Jr., Johann),” IMSLP, accessed January 8, 2026, https://imslp.org/wiki/Eine_Nacht_in_Venedig_(Strauss_Jr.,_Johann).
- Andrew Lamb, “Nights in Venice,” The Musical Times 117, no. 1606 (1976): 989–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/958274.
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