Viktoria und ihr Husar (Victoria and Her Hussar) is an operetta in three acts and a prelude by Paul Abraham with a libretto by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda, based on a work by the Hungarian playwright Imre Földes.
[3] The operetta takes place after the end of the first world war in a Russian prison camp in Siberia, as well as in the cities Tokyo (Japan), St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Hungarian village Dorozsma near Szeged.
The melody speaks so to the Cossack guard that he promises the two Hungarians that he will release them, if only he can receive the violin in exchange for their freedom.
John Cunlght has no idea of the past that connects his wife with the newly arrived Hungarian, and invited Stefan Koltay and his friend Jancsi to travel with them, under diplomatic protection.
Jancsi is overjoyed, since he immediately fell in love with Viktoria's pretty chamber maid, Riquette, and now sees the opportunity to stay close to her.
The Russian secret service has found out that a person once sentenced to death in a Siberian prison camp, namely Stefan Koltay, is residing in the US embassy under false name.
As he holds the papers in his hand, it becomes obvious to John Cunlight that his wife has had previous a relationship with Stefan Koltay, but despite this, he refuses the Russian orders.
One flute, one oboe, two clarinets, one bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one harp, one tuba, one celesta, one lap steel guitar, percussion and strings.