Lors d'un séjour aux États-Unis, Gilberte Valandray a été mariée en premières noces à un Américain, Eric Thomson. Son mariage a été un échec. Mais cette union n'ayant pas été légalisé par le consul de France, il n'est, de fait, pas reconnu en France. Revenue à Paris, Gilberte a épousé Georges Valandray, riche métallurgiste. Celui-ci, qui croit à la félicité conjugale dès lors que l'on est le premier mari de sa femme, est soigneusement tenu dans l'ignorance de l'union avec Eric Thomson. Seule la sœur de Gilberte, Arlette Poumaillac, toujours célibataire, connaît le secret. Mais qu'arriverait-il, si par pure coïncidence, Georges Valandray entrait en relations d'affaires avec cet Eric Thomson et se prenait d'amitié pour lui ?
In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together. This is the Stratford Festival of Canada, directed by Brian Macdonald. This is a filmed version of a stage performance, and the sets are beautifully spare and economical.
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Live performance of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
In this three-act operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, a dashing and mysterious circus performer is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princess Fedora Palinska to pose as a nobleman and marry her. This 1969 performance was produced for West German television.