John Mauceri, the conductor, is the founder and lifetime director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, with which he has conducted 350 concerts for over four million people.
Cultural Impact
The Student Prince became an icon and artifact of a lost world, representing a dream of a time that perhaps never quite existed, but offered comfort after World War I.
Historical Context
The Student Prince, despite its success in Berlin in 1932, was closed by Hitler in 1933 because Sigmund Romberg, the composer, was Jewish.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The original success of The Student Prince is believed to be linked to the aftermath of World War I, offering audiences a nostalgic escape to a simpler time.
Composition History
Sigmund Romberg's operetta, The Student Prince, was the longest-running show on Broadway in the 1920s and 1930s, outperforming all George and Ira Gershwin shows and even Kern-Hammerstein-Ferber's Show Boat.
Recording & Production
The WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, founded in 1947, is Europe's only symphony orchestra specializing in the full spectrum of entertainment music, from musicals and operettas to film scores and jazz.
Composer Biography
Sigmund Romberg, a Hungarian Jew who studied in Vienna, immigrated to America in 1909 and became a citizen in 1919.
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