The Last Performance

The impressive cast is headed by the great Heinrich George as Boris Stroganoff an opera composer and conductor whos also a notorious lothario Albani is ballet dancer Viola Suroff whos put her career aside to look after her partner Maxim Sadi a baritone with unspecified health issues that have kept him off stage Stroganoff sets his sights on Viola and offers her a job in the corps de ballet for his new opera The Boyar which she accepts provided Maxim is also hired However dancer Margot called Myrra in the French version maintains a seething passion for Stroganoff as does Countess Geschow called Countess Ziska on this print both of whom are resentful when watching his interactions with Viola Jealousies run high on opening night between all the characters and Stroganoff is shot midperformance but who is the killer Maxim Margot or GeschowI