Operette

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He's quickly engaged by another theatre and becomes famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting, which begins their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.

• opera
• musician
• sexual tension
• vienna, austria
• vienna opera
• 19th century
• mutual attraction
• based on real person
• stage director
• biographical drama