Finale – Viennese Operetta Gala Evening
Tokar, Nurgeldiyev & Eschwé
Symphony Concert
Sunday, 6 September 2020
6 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent
Wildfeuer [Wildfire], Blitz-Polka [Lightning Polka], Lavaströme [Lava streams], Brennende Liebe [Burning love], Explosionspolka [Explosive Polka], Feuerfest [Fire Festival]... It is going to get hot – very hot! – in the Gstaad Tent for the grand finale of this 2020 edition, under the effigy of the “King of the Waltz”. How, indeed, can we pay tribute to Vienna without honoring the music of one of the most emblematic of its masters, Johann Strauss II? Carried by Alfred Eschwé and his Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester, his waltzes, polkas and other marches will share the spotlight with operetta arias by his most famous contemporaries, served in a delightfully candy pink fashion by Olena Tokar and Dovlet Nurgeldiyev.
Olena Tokar, Soprano
Dovlet Nurgeldiyev, Tenor
Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester
alfred eschwé, Conductor
| Franz Lehár (1870-1948) | |
| Overture to the operetta «Wiener Frauen» | 9' |
| Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) | |
| «Grüss mir mein Wien», aria from the operetta «Gräfin Mariza» | 6' |
| Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) | |
| «Tik-Tak», fast polka, Op. 365 | 3' |
| Oscar Straus (1870-1954) | |
| «Komm komm! Held meiner Träume», aria from the operetta «Der tapfere Soldat» | |
| Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) | |
| Egyptian March, Op. 335 | 5' |
| Carl Zeller (1842-1898) | |
| «Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol», aria from the operetta «Der Vogelhändler» | 3' |
| Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) | |
| «Rosen aus der Süden», waltz, Op. 388 | 9' |
| — interval — | |
| Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) | |
| «Wiener Blut», waltz, Op. 354 | 9' |
| Rudolf Sieczyński (1879-1952) | |
| «Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume», song | 4' |
| Franz Lehár (1870-1948) | |
| «Zwanzinetta» after motives of the operatta «Eva» | 4' |
| «Vilja-Lied» from the operetta «Die lustige Witwe» | 6' |
| Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) | |
| «Unter Donner und Blitz», fast polka, Op. 324 | 3' |
| Franz Lehár (1870-1948) | |
| «Lippen schweigen», duo from the operetta «Die lustige Witwe» | 4' |
| «Gold und Silber», waltz, Op. 79 | 9' |
| 120' | |
| CHF 160/135/95/65 |