“Silvia” or Princess of czardas is one of the most famous operettas composed by Emmerich Kálmán. In 1915, when this delicious cocktail of romance, waltz, czardas and fine humor debuted on the Viennese stage of the Johann Strauss Theater, the audience needed more than always by the mirage of a Belle Époque. And this cabaret fairy tale, the love story between the young singer Silvia Varescu and Prince Edwin, was transposed into an exceptional libretto, which it included many fascinating elements: seductive nightclubs, proms society, intrigues that weave and unravel easily and characters who seem to practice frivolity with fervor.

Directed in a classical vision, the staging of Kerényi Miklós Gábor – KERO®, then the director of the Operetta and Musical Theatre in Budapest, argues precisely for this “essence” of operetta, genre show, alert, frothy, built of upheavals, glasses of champagne and happy endings.

With a well-cohesive dramaturgy, “Silvia” surprises by the way in which the meticulous musical characterizations of the characters were made, giving the protagonists personalities. distinct. The most popular moments that place the work in the first line of success of the works Kálmán’s: “Silvia’s Entry”, the couplets “How to Live Without Love” and “Happy Girls at the cabaret”, the duets, the trio “Sing gypsies”, the endings of choir acts, with very engaging rhythms.