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''Zsuzsi kisasszony'' (literally "Miss Suzy", also known as ''Miss Springtime'' and ''Die Faschingsfee'') is an

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in 3 acts by Hungarian composer

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. It premiered at the Vig theatre in Budapest on February 23, 1915. The

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was by Martos and M. Bródy. As ''Miss Springtime'', it opened, in heavily revised form, on Broadway in 1916. With a German libretto by

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and Rudolf Österreicher, a revised version of the music premiered as ''Die Faschingsfee'' (''The Carnival Fairy'') in

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, at the Johann Strauss Theater, on 21 September 1917. A further revision of ''Die Faschingsfee'' was done for

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, with a larger role for the leading lady, and it is the Berlin version that is most often seen today. In 2012, an English translation of the Berlin version was done at the

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under the title ''Miss Springtime'', but the recording made of that production was eventually released in 2013 under the title ''The Carnival Fairy''.

Roles in ''Zsuzsi Kisasszony''

Roles in ''Die Faschingsfee''

Synopses

The plot of ''Zsuzsi Kisasszony'' concerns Zsuzsi, a small-town girl who runs off to

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with Falsetti, a famous tenor, only to return, somewhat the wiser, to her old home and Péterfy, her old sweetheart. The plot of ''Die Faschingsfee'' revolves around an artist, Victor, who in defending the honor of an unknown woman (Princess Alexandra Maria, as it turns out) offends his patron and loses a large stipend. In the end, all comes out right.

Film

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(Germany, 1931)

Sources

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A survey of Kalman operettas
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