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Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves) is an operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
 composed by Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
, with a German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 libretto by Maximilian Steiner
Maximilian Steiner

Maximilian Steiner was an Austrian actor and theater manager.Steiner was manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien from 1869 to 1875 with Marie Geistinger, a Viennese actress, and from 1875 to 1880 on his own....
 based on the tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" from the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights , is a collection of folk tales and other stories. The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on India elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East an...
.

as first staged on 10 February 1871 at the Theater an der Wien
Theater an der Wien

The 'Theater an der Wien' is a theatre in Vienna....
 in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. It was initially granted a warm reception by Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
's theatre-going public, but the press was more divided in opinion.






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Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves) is an operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
 composed by Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
, with a German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 libretto by Maximilian Steiner
Maximilian Steiner

Maximilian Steiner was an Austrian actor and theater manager.Steiner was manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien from 1869 to 1875 with Marie Geistinger, a Viennese actress, and from 1875 to 1880 on his own....
 based on the tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" from the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights , is a collection of folk tales and other stories. The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on India elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East an...
.

Performance history

It was first staged on 10 February 1871 at the Theater an der Wien
Theater an der Wien

The 'Theater an der Wien' is a theatre in Vienna....
 in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. It was initially granted a warm reception by Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
's theatre-going public, but the press was more divided in opinion. Typical published reactions were: "It consists of dance music on which Strauss has overlaid text and characters ... A man of Strauss' reputation should never have allowed his name to be associated with such a venture ... It is an interesting production and is a foretaste of great things to come."

The work was successfully restaged in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 in 1875 under the title Queen Indigo, then, rechristened A Night on the Bosphorus, it was presented in London
London

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 in 1876.

Finally, after Strauss' death, the operetta was entirely reworked in 1906 by Max Steiner
Max Steiner

Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
 and staged in Vienna under yet another title, The Thousand and One Nights, which is also the title of one of Strauss' waltzes (Tausend und eine Nacht
Tausend und eine Nacht

Tausend und eine Nacht op. 346 is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1871. The waltz's melodies were drawn from his first-ever operetta Indigo und die vierzig R?uber ....
 op. 346) of which the melodies were drawn from the stage work.

Max Schönherr (1903-84) later reworked the ballet music from this work into a concert piece, and this version has been recorded.

Roles

RoleVoice typePremiere Cast, 10 February 1871
(Conductor: - )
Janiotenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
Albin Swoboda sr.
IndigotenorCarl Matthias Rott
Ali BabatenorJani Szika
RomadourbaritoneCarl Adolf Friese
Fantascasoprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 
Piastrellasoprano 
Empresssoprano