Super Suppe
\VVOn SUPPE is a name I associated with a couple of overtures (need I name them?) which I first heard on a pianola and seem to have heard since played only by brass bands. I had thought of him merely as a kind of Viennese Sousa or Teutonic Ketelby. But the YA link presentation of his operetta Boccaccio disclosed a quite new von Suppé, a composer in the true Viennese tradition of Lehar and the Strausses, with a gift for gay melodies, sweet melodies, vigorous melodiesabove all, melodies. This special genre, not quite opera, yet a cut above what we call "musical comedy," seems to belong to an earlier age, but dates rather less than musical comedies of a few years ago. Boccaccio’s libretto, centring, naturally, round the author of the Decameron, seemed rather more literate than usual, and the Vienna Folk Opera Chorus gave a sparkle to the work which suggests it would be quite engaging on the stage. Theatre of Music has a habit of pulling out a plum every two or three
programmes, and I’m quite willing to endure one Blossom Time for one
Boccaccio.
J.C
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 17
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192Super Suppe New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 17
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