Ball im Savoy

In the organizer's words:

Operetta by Paul Abraham, text by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda

Music theater - Theater am Domhof
Premiere 02.11.2024
Duration of performance: approx. 2 hours 45 minutes, including an intermission after approx. 55 minutes

"Wild. Sexy. Dance mad. [...] This evening is a hit"

- Werner Hülsmann, ON

"This is really the best entertainment. [...] the evening is perfect in every respect."

- Ralf Döring, NOZ

What does a woman get out of fidelity? Nothing at all! Because Marquis Aristide has barely returned from his year-long honeymoon and has nothing better to do than promptly arrange to meet his old flame Tangolita at a ball in the Savoy under a false name. Naturally, his clever wife Madeleine follows him, also under a false identity, and returns the favor. After all, what is he allowed to do that she is not?

Paul Abraham's operettas have left heartache behind and score with boundless lust and frivolous joie de vivre. In Ball im Savoy, the music pulsates like the Berlin life of those wild years, which came to a brutal end in 1933. First performed in 1932, Abraham's revealing revue jazzes and dances its way through real and feigned emotions, always remaining absolutely unsentimental.