Eine Nacht in Venedig

Eine Nacht in Venedig had its premiere on 3 October 1883 at the Neues Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater in Berlin — the only one of Strauss's operettas launched outside Vienna. The evening went badly: the audience laughed at the libretto by F. Zell and Richard Genée, and lines from it circulated in the press as ridicule. Strauss revised the score for the Viennese premiere a week later at the Theater an der Wien, and the work was rewritten repeatedly afterwards, most drastically by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in 1923, which is the form usually staged today.