Fiery rhythms and Hungarian temperament: A pretty gypsy girl, who proves to be a Turkish pashas daughter, an impoverished nobleman who falls in love with her, a rich and vulgar pig-farmer, his daughter and her lover: set against an exotic backdrop, loves misunderstandings and mishaps all with a happy ending, of course form the juicy ingredients of this operetta full of lilting waltzes and stirring march rhythms, with which Johann Strauss II deservedly scored one of his greatest stage successes.