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Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Senica, Slovakia – 23 February 1940, Vienna, Austria) was a well-known Jewish librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
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Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Senica, Slovakia – 23 February 1940, Vienna, Austria) was a well-known Jewish librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
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Biography Hirschfeld began a career as a journalist, and then branched out in the theatre under the pseudonym that was to become familiar - Viktor Léon. Between 1880 and 1884 he wrote one-act libretti for Vienna's Ronacher variety theatre, the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg, and the German Theatre in Pest, collaborating with composers such as Max von Weinzierl, Rudolf Raimann and Alfred Zamara. Then came a three-act collaboration with Zamara, Der Doppelgänger, produced at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich in September 1886. He then wrote a libretto for Johann Strauss. Alas, Simplicius, a story of the Thirty Years' War, produced at the Theater an der Wien on 17 December 1887, was scarcely a success, even after being revised twice. There followed a string of further creations with composers such as Zamara, Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr., Alphons Czibulka, Rudolf Dellinger, and even Franz von Suppé (his last work, Das Modell), as well as German adaptations of foreign works that included Arthur Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard and Edward Jakobowski's Erminie. Not until 1898 was Léon associated with a lasting success, when he collaborated with Heinrich von Waldberg and composer Richard Heuberger on Der Opernball (The Opera Ball), produced at the Theater…
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Simplicius, 1887 (Music: Johann Strauss II) Der Streik der Schmiede, 1897 (Music: Max Josef Beer)
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Der Opernball, 1898 (Music: Richard Heuberger) Wiener Blut, 1899 (Music: Johann Strauss II)
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Der Rastelbinder, 1902 (Music: Franz Lehár) Die Schönen von Fogaras, 1903 (Music: Alfred Grünfeld)
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Barfüßele, 1904, (Music: Richard Heuberger) Der Göttergatte, with Leo Stein, 1904 (Music: Franz Lehár) Die lustige Witwe, 1905 (Music: Franz Lehár) The Merry Farmer (German: Der fidele Bauer), 1907 (Music: Leo Fall) Die geschiedene Frau, 1908 (Music: Leo Fall) Gold gab ich für Eisen, 1914 (Music: Emmerich Kálmán)
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Wiener Volkssänger, 1919 (Music: Robert Mahler) Die gelbe Jacke, 1923 (Music: Franz Lehár), later version The Land of Smiles, 1929
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Filmography Das erste Weib, directed by Hubert Marischka (Austria, 1915) A koldusgróf, directed by Béla Balogh (Hungary, 1917, based on Vergeltsgott) Drótostót, directed by Lajos Lázár (Hungary, 1918, based on Der Rastelbinder) The Merry Widow, directed by Michael Curtiz (Hungary, 1918) Dorela, directed by Ernst Marischka (Austria, 1921) The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim (1925) Love is Blind, directed by Lothar Mendes (Germany, 1925) Der Rastelbinder, directed by Heinz Hanus, Arthur Gottlein and Maurice Armand Mondet (Austria, 1926) The Divorcée, directed by Victor Janson and Rudolf Dworsky (Germany, 1926) Das Fürstenkind, directed by Luise Fleck and Jacob Fleck (Germany, 1927) The Merry Farmer, directed by Franz Seitz (Germany, 1927) The Land of Smiles, directed by Max Reichmann (Germany, 1930) The Merry Widow, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1934) Opernball, directed by Géza von Bolváry (Germany, 1939) Vienna Blood, directed by Willi Forst (Germany, 1942) The Merry Farmer, directed by Georg Marischka (Austria, 1951) The Merry Widow, directed by Curtis Bernhardt (1952) The Land of Smiles, directed by Hans Deppe and Erik Ode (West Germany, 1952) The Divorcée, directed by Georg Jacoby (West Germany, 1953) Opernball, directed by Ernst Marischka (Austria, 1956) The Merry Widow, directed by Werner Jacobs (Austria,…