Swelling Melodies
''Swelling Melodies'' (german: Rauschende Melodien) is a 1955 East German musical film directed by E.W. Fiedler and starring Erich Arnold, Jarmila Ksírová and Sonja Schöner. It is an adaptation of the operetta ''Die Fledermaus'' by Johann Strauss II and Richard Genée and was part of a tradition of operetta films in German cinema.. It was released in 1955, and sold 4,968,582 tickets. It was made by the state-backed DEFA studios. The film's sets were designed by Artur Günther. Cast * Erich Arnold as Gabriel von Eisenstein * Jarmila Ksírová as Rosalinde von Eisenstein * Sonja Schöner as Adele * Herbert Kiper as Dr. Falke * Gerd Frickhöffer as Prinz Orlofsky * Rolf Weih as Alfred * Hans Wocke as Gefängnisdirektor Frank * Joseph Egger as Gefängniswärter Frosch * Elvira Sternbeck as Ida * Hans Klering as Dr. Blind * Hans Alexander as Gefangener * Günter Beurenmeister as Verehrer * Kurt Bobeth-Bolander as Bersitz * Ursula Dücker as Dame * Christine Fischer as Dame ...
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Richard Genée
Franz Friedrich Richard Genée (7 February 1823 – 15 June 1895) was a Prussian born Austrian libretto, librettist, playwright, and composer. Life Genée was born in Gdańsk, Danzig. He died at Baden bei Wien. Works He is most famous for the libretto of ''Die Fledermaus'', Johann Strauss II's most famous operetta. He co-wrote the libretto without having met top-billed librettist Karl Haffner, who constructed the new story based on a play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, which was considered too shocking to perform outside Paris. Genée, however, wrote the operetta's actual text and drew nothing from Haffner beyond the names of the characters.Andrew Lamb (writer), Andrew Lamb. Liner Notes, ''Die Fledermaus'', EMI/Angel Records, 1986 One of his best-known works was the libretto of Karl Millöcker's operetta ''Der Bettelstudent'', which he co-wrote with Friedrich Zell (the pseudonym of Camillo Walzel). He also wrote the libretto to Ella Adayevskaya's 1877 opera ''Zarya (op ...
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