Word: koblenzer
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Plenty of European cities are luring tourists with serious music this summer, but Koblenz (pop.: 92,000) has a different idea. Koblenz offers a big pontoon stage on a quiet inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
...Koblenz keeps it largely a home-town production. The local Rhine Philharmonic, a 40-piece orchestra, is the musical backbone of the performance. Koblenz' young singers and budding ballerinas make up the cast of 200, and 40 strapping youngsters, male & female, of the Poseidon Swimming Club perform in the aquacade act. For the top roles, some talent had to be imported. Of one guest performer, a Koblenz official proudly reported: "Oh, he's first class. He sometimes even sings on the radio...
...show has been selling out every night. The attitude of the Koblenz city fathers: let Edinburgh, Salzburg and Bayreuth have the heavy stuff. At the present rate, the City of the Operetta Festival can expect 100,000 customers by the end of summer...