Budapest, Hungary.(A Sampler from the World Stage)(Brief Article)

BUDAPEST SPRING FESTIVAL: Hungarian folk rhythms entwine with Viennese waltzes in a pair of classic operettas by Emmerich Kalman, to be presented by Budapest Operetta Theatre at the largest annual cultural event in the composer's native Hungary. His 1915 Gipsy Princess recounts the struggle between a singer and her high-born rival for the affections of a duke.

Countess Maritza--which had two Broadway runs in the 1920s--follows a rich, stubborn bachelorette and an ...

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