Fall: Brüderlein fein

Following Der fidele Bauer, Paroli, Die Kaiserin, and Madame Pompadour, we are now proud to present to you Leo Fall’s Bruderlein fein – and next year we plan to release Die Dollarprinzessin! Bruderlein fein is an Old Viennese singspiel in one act that is closely related to the operetta. The libretto is by Julius Wilhelm, who was regarded as a specialist in the tales of Old Vienna that had been the fashion since the turn of the century – just when the city began to be transformed into a modern metropolis. Old Vienna was created as its idyllic opposite, as the fiction of a Biedermeier city in which life was a dream, an image that continues to exercise its fascination even today. Bruderlein fein treats a fictional episode from the life of the legendary composer Joseph Drechsler. From 1822 to 1830 he was the conductor at the Leopoldstadt Theater, where he wrote the stage music for Ferdinand Raimund’s Zaubermärchen. His last and most famous work, Der Verschwender, contains »Bruderlein fein,