Carnival Fairy

The Ohio Light Opera performs Emmerich Kalman's delightful three-act operetta in a new English performance. Written by Kalman in 1915 and called Miss Susie, producers from Broadway secured the first international rights. In 1916, with English lyrics by novelist P.G. Wodehouse, the show opened at the New Amsterdam Theater as Miss Springtime and ran for 227 performances. Spurred by this success, Kalman sought a German language libretto to adapt Miss Susie for Vienna, where it opened in 1917 and was called The Carnival Fairy. Subsequently mounted in Berlin with significant rewrites by Kalman, this version in a new English translation is the one used for the Ohio Light Opera production.