Gabriel von Eisenstein, a man of private means, meets his wife Rosalinde.

The nabob is Prince Orlovsky.

The singer is Alfred, a music teacher.

The operetta was composed in 1874.

Das The libretto is by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée.
As a model they had the comedy "Le Revéillon" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, which was first performed in Paris in 1872. Meilhac and Halévy also were the librettists of Bizet’s "Carmen".