Madame Pompadour (operetta)

Madame Pompadour
Operetta by Leo Fall
Cover of the vocal score
Librettist	Rudolph Schanzer Ernst Welisch
Premiere	9 September 1922 (1922-09-09) Berliner Theater, Berlin

Madame Pompadour is an operetta in three acts, composed by Leo Fall with a libretto by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch. Conducted by the composer, it opened at the Berliner Theater [de] in Berlin on 9 September 1922 and then at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 2 March 1923.

Translated into English, Madame Pompadour premiered at Daly's Theatre, London, on 20 December 1923. It was also translated into Italian and performed at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 15 January 1924. It was later given in French in an adaptation by Albert Willemetz, Max Eddy and Jean Marietti, in Paris at the Théâtre Marigny on 16 May 1930. With the extraordinary success of the operetta in Berlin, Vienna, London and elsewhere, Fall regained the international fame that he had enjoyed prior to World War I. He died of cancer two years later at the age of only 52.^[1]