The Gipsy Baron
Comic opera in three acts
Libretto
Ignatz Schnitzer (after the novella "Saffi" by Maurus Jókai)
Premiere
24 October 1885, Vienna (Zheater an der Wien)
Cast
SANDOR BARINKAY (tenor)
KALMAN ZSUPAN (baritone)
OTTOKAR (tenor)
COUNT PETER HOMONAY (baritone)
CONTE CARNERO (baritone)
SAFFI (soprano)
CZIPRA (mezzo-soprano)
ARSENA (soprano)
MIRABELLA (contralto)
PALI (bass)
CHORUS
gypsies, soldiers, pages, nobles, boatmen, Hungarian peasants, Viennes townspeople
Place
Hungary and Austria
Time
Middle of the 19th century<hr>