In 1922, Carlo Lombardo, at the height of his favourable period of happy intuitions, produced two successful operettas: Scugnizza and La Danza delle Libellule. For the former, the author of the music was Mario Costa; for the latter, Lombardo had obtained permission from Lehàr himself to re-adapt the melodies of the Sterngucker, already presented, with little success, in Vienna in 1916. In the skilful hands of the Neapolitan composer-librettist, the operetta was so pleasantly transformed that Lehàr himself presented it first in Vienna, then in various countries in Europe and America. In northern Europe, La Danza delle Libellule is still the most frequently performed of the Italian operettas, and is known under the title Le Tre Grazie (The Three Graces).

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