Gipsy Love (operetta)

Gipsy Love (German title Zigeunerliebe) is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár with a libretto by Alfred Willner and Robert Bodanzky, provided with English translations and revisions by several hands.

A French version, Amour Tzigane, toured France with great success in 1911, and the piece continues to be played in Eastern Europe.

A new translation and revision by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross opened at Daly's Theatre, London, on 1 June 1912.

[2][page needed] For the London production, George Edwardes had Hood write into the new libretto the comic part of Lady Babby for Gertie Millar.

He also imported Hungarian operetta star Sári Petráss for the romantic role of Ilona (renamed from the original Zorika), with W. H. Berry as Dragotin, her father, and with Robert Michaelis and Daisy Burrell.