What you do get here in luxurious profusion is the sense of ensemble and elegantly worn Viennese style that’s become a trademark of the Bad Ischl Lehár Festival. With Marius Burkert in the pit we’ve come to expect orchestral playing of unusual warmth and finesse and that’s certainly the case here: it sparkles, glows and swings, the phrasing is lovely without being indulgent and Kalman’s little dashes of jazz-age pizzazz catch the light but never sound like gimmicks

Theatrically at least, there is faint aroma of warmed-up soup. But when the musical cuisine is this good, who cares?...Despite audible strain above the stave, the Bad Ischl stalwarts Miriam Portmann and Vincent Schirrmacher are vivid and well matched as the famous couple…Marius Burkert maintains momentum, marshalling his extended choral and orchestral forces with stylish skill and enthusiasm.