Directed by Guy Daines
Lois Stott (contralto)
AN OPERETTA, Fatinitza, by Suppe, was once put on at the Alhambra m Leicester Square, and another, Boccaccio, at the Comedy Theatre a year or two later. That was fifty and more years ago, long forgotten, and all we really know of a once very popular composer of operettas in Vienna is an overture or two, such as Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry, and Morning, Noon and Night. Supp6 was for years conductor at the famous Theater an der Wien, and many of his very numerous operettas were produced there. It was at this theatre, too, that Johann Strauss had a great success with Die Fledermaus -and his other world-famous operettas. Supp6 must often have conducted them. (Scottish Regional Programme)