''Prinz Methusalem'' (''Prince Methusalem'') is an operetta written by

Johann Strauss II Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ov ...

to a libretto by

Karl Treumann Matthias Karl Ludwig Treumann (27 July 1823 – 18 April 1877) was an Austrian actor, operetta singer (tenor), theatre director and writer. Life After an apprenticeship as a printer in his native Hamburg in 1841, he went to the in Pest, w ...

, after Victor Wilder and Alfred Delacour. It was first performed on January 3, 1877 in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

at the Carltheater. It achieved a run of eighty performances. The pot-pourri overture incorporates themes from the operetta, as well as other material that might have sometime been part of the planned score.

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