Das Veilchen vom Montmartre

Das Veilchen vom Montmartre (The Violet of Montmartre) is an operetta in 3 acts by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán. The libretto was written by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. It premiered in Vienna at the Johann Strauss Theater on 21 March 1930.^[1]

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 21 March 1930 Conductor: Josef Holzer [de]
Ninon	soprano	Adele Kern
Pipo de Frascatti	tenor	Richard Waldemar [de]
Raoul Delacroix	lyric tenor	Ernst Tautenhayn [de]
Henri Murger	baritone	Walter Jankuhn
Florimond Hervé	tenor	Robert Nästelberger
Violetta Cavallini	soprano	Anny Ahlers

For the 1932 performances at the Alhambra Theatre in London the title was changed to A Kiss in Spring and the score was re-worked and supplemented by Herbert Griffiths (who had previously worked on the English adaption of Walzer aus Wien). There were additional orchestrations by a distinguished set of musicians: Constant Lambert, Arthur Wood, Alfred Reynolds and Walford Hyden. The choreography was by Frederick Ashton and the dancers included a young Alicia Markova as well as Harold Turner, Walter Gore and Prudence Hyman. ^[2]^[3]

^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Das Veilchen vom Montmartre, 21 March 1930". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
^ A Kiss in Spring, the Frederick Ashton Foundation
^ "A talent for light music". Musicb3.wordpress.com. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2020.