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The Count of Luxembourg is an operetta in two acts with lyrics by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross, music by Franz Lehár, adapted by Basil Hood from from the German "Der Graf von Luxemburg" (with a book by A.M. Willner and Robert Bodansky). It opened at Daly's Theatre in London on 20 May 1911 and ran for 240 performances. It starred Lily Elsie and Bertram Wallis. The operetta also had a good run in New York in 1912.

There was also a silent film version in 1926. In 1983, Sadler's Wells Theatre presented a new version of the operetta, with a book by Nigel Douglas and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and Nigel Douglas.

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• Count René of Luxembourg
• Registrar
• Jean Baptiste (A Waiter)
• Mons. De Trésac
• Mons. De Valmont
• Pelegrin, Mentschikoff, Paulovitch (The Grand Duke's Attendants)
• Lavigne, Boulanger (Artists)
• Brissard (An Artist)
• The Grand Duke Rutzinov
• Juliette (A Model)
• Countess Kokozeff
• Mimi
• Lisette (Maid to Angèle Didier)
• Fleurette
• Amelie
• Rosalie
• Coralie
• Sidonie
• Babette
• Jacqueline
• Therése
• Angèle Didier

In the plot, the Grand Duke cannot marry Angela, with whom he is infatuated, unless she bears a title. He therefore induces the penniless spendthrift, Count René, to marry a lady whose face he is not to see, and to agree to a divorce in three months. For this the Count receives the sum of £20,000 (half a million francs). At the wedding ceremony, the Count and his mystery bride are separated by a screen - but later they meet and fall in love. Little knowing that they are already husband and wife, they believe their romance is hopeless. But a happy ending is worked out, accompanied by Lehár 's lilting music and famous waltzes.

ACT I - Brissard's Studio, Paris

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Carnival! Make the most of Carnival! Let the bottle pass who has got the wine..."
• No. 2 - Song - Brissard and Chorus - "Anyone who knows me could not suppose me gloomy, or glum, or sad! ..."
• No. 3 - Song - Juliette and Chorus - "Pierrot and Pierrette (just like you and me) had their little supper set..."
• No. 4 - Entrance Chorus and Song - René - "Carnival! Make the most of Carnival! ..."
• No. 4a - First Exit - "So lend it, spend it, end it, and out of the window send it..."
• No. 4b - Second Exit - "So lend it, spend it, end it, and out of the window send it..."
• No. 5 - Duet - Juliette and Brissard - "Tonight we'll have a special boom, a Carnival for two! ..."
• No. 6 - Song - Grand Duke and Attendants - "I am in love, I cannot contradict it! ...."
• No. 7 - Scene and Air - Angèle - "Someone's here to marry me, and I don't know who! ..."
• No. 8 - Duet - Angèle and Grand Duke - "You will be a Royal Highness! ..."
• No. 9 - Quintet - René, Grand Duke and Attendants - "Your cheque upon Coutts's and Co. ..."
• No. 10 - Finale Act I - "Fair Countess, may I wish that now you'll be happy for ever? ..."

ACT II - Reception Hall at the Grand Duke Rutzinov's, Paris

• No. 11 - Opening Scene and Dance
• No. 12 - Entrance Chorus and Solo - Angèle - "Hail, Angèle, our nightingale, hail to the lovely Diva! ..."
• No. 12a - Fanfare
• No. 12b - Stage Music
• No. 13 - Song - Grand Duke - "Once a Butterfly came flutt'ring to a tender little Rose! ..."
• No. 14 - Song - René - "Ah, the perfume, how it lingers! What a dainty little glove..."
• No. 15 - Duet - Juliette and Brissard - "Now if you really mean to mix in high society..."
• No. 16 - Duet - Angèle and René - "What are you doing? Are you mad? You must have lost your senses! ..."
• No. 17 - Russian Dance - Kukuska
• No. 18 - Song - Grand Duke and Girls - "Since first I burst upon the scene in beauty bright and glorious..."
• No. 19 - Duet - Angèle and René - "Are you going to dance? ... No, merci, mon ami? ... May I not have a chance? ..."
• No. 20 - Quartet - Juliette, Mimi, Grand Duke, Brissard and Girls - "A man is a boy while he can enjoy his whole life long..."
• No. 21 - Finale Act II - Angèle and René - "Say not love is a dream, say not that hope is vain..."

Lamb, Andrew. "Lehar's 'Count of Luxembourg'", Musical Times, Vol. 124, No. 1679 (January 1983) p. 23-25.

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