It was first performed at the Wilhelm-Theater in Magdeburg on 26 February 1910. It was the composer's greatest success, enabling him to move to Berlin to become conductor of the Thalia-Theater.
Adapted into English, by Frederick Fenn and Arthur Wimperis, it was produced in London in 1912 as The Girl in the Taxi. Adapted back into French by Mars and Desvallières, it was produced in Paris and then Lyon in 1913 as La chaste Suzanne. The musical was adapted back into French by Mars and Desvallières and produced in Paris and then Lyon in 1913 as La chaste Suzanne. It was also staged in South America in Italian (La casta Susana), in Spanish (La chasta Suzanna), and Portuguese (Susana), among other languages.[1] In France the work has continued to be produced into the twenty-first century (for instance in Calais in January 2004), and in 2017 a 1962 French radio performance was released in the form of digital downloads.
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Three members of the cast of the first Swedish performance of Die keusche Susanne at the Oscarsteatern in Stockholm, 1911. Swedish actresses Manetta Eriksson (later Ryberg [sv]) and Lisa Holm [sv] are surrounding Norwegian baritone Thorleif Allum [sv].
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