The Land of Smiles

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Das Land des Lächelns The Land of Smiles
Operetta by Franz Lehár
The composer
Librettist	Ludwig Herzer [de] Fritz Löhner-Beda
Language	German
Premiere	10 October 1929 (1929-10-10) Metropol-Theater, Berlin [de] (revised version)

The Land of Smiles (German: Das Land des Lächelns) is a 1929 romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German language libretto was by Ludwig Herzer [de] and Fritz Löhner-Beda. The performance duration is about 100 minutes.

This was one of Lehár's later works, and has a bittersweet ending which the Viennese loved. The title refers to the supposed Chinese custom of smiling, whatever happens in life. (The leading character, Prince Sou-Chong has a song early in the show, "Immer nur lächeln" ("Always smiling") which describes this.)