Waltz Dream: Operatta in Three Acts
Composer:
Oscar Straus
Catalog numbers:
EBM EBM0670017/ HL 45395
Duration (minutes):
105
Detailed Instrumentation:
Cast of 12: 2D1.2.2.2: 4.2.2.0: timp:perc:hp: str
Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream) is an operetta by Oscar Straus with a German libretto by Leopold Jacobson [de] and Felix Dörmann [de], based on the novella Nux, der Prinzgemahl (Nux, the Prince Consort) by Hans Müller-Einigen from his 1905 book Buch der Abenteuer (Book of Adventures). The young Jacobson presented Straus with a libretto for Ein Walzertraum at a coffee house in the Vienna Prater in 1906. Straus was inspired by the text and completed the work within 12 months for its premiere in spring 1907. (From Wikipedia December 2018)