Wiener Blut (operetta)

Wiener Blut (Viennese Blood) is an 1899 operetta named after Johann Strauss II's eponymous 1873 waltz.

Strauss may have seen a draft of the work, but he died a few months before its 26 October premiere at Vienna's Carltheater.

But Wiener Blut ran for only thirty performances before making way for Sidney Jones' critically acclaimed The Geisha; in February of the following year Jauner shot himself at his desk in the Carltheater, facing bankruptcy.

Five years later, however, when the Theater an der Wien staged a slightly modified Wiener Blut, it caught the public ear, and it has retained a place in the repertory ever since.

In 2007 English Touring Opera mounted a concert production of Wiener Blut at venues throughout the United Kingdom.