It is based on the life of 18th century Italian adventurer and womanizer Giacomo Casanova.
The work utilizes the music of the 1878 operetta Blindekuh written by Johann Strauss II but with a different and new libretto by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.
Casanova was one of a series of spectacular "revue-operettas" Benatzky wrote for producer and revue director Erik Charell at the Großes Schauspielhaus.
The star-studded original cast of Casanova included Michael Bohnen, the well-known opera bass-baritone in the title role, Anni Frind, Anny Ahlers, Paul Morgan, and Siegfried "Sig" Arno.
[2] La Jana was a dancer, and the Comedian Harmonists appeared there with enormous success.