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CAMELOT Musical in 2 acts by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Camelot had the impossibly difficult task of following behind My Fair Lady in the opus of Lerner and Loewe, and
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“Camelot” Returns With A New Broadway Cast Album
I have always liked 90 percent of Camelot. And 100 percent of its delicious source material. I am, yes, too
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The History of the Imperial Summer Theater in Bad Ischl
Teresa Hrdlicka has just published a 184-page book entitled Das kaiserliche Sommertheater in Bad Ischl: Operette und Oper unter Kaiser
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“Iolanthe”: Betting Dollars to Donuts on These Fairies At Carnegie Hall
It’s only May, but I’m betting dollars to donuts that this starry production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s seventh comic opera
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Victor Herbert’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”: Live in New York
“You’re about to see a flop,” VHRP Artistic Director Alyce Mott impishly teased the packed house a few moments before
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Uraufführung von Moritz Eggerts neuer Operette „Die letzte Verschwörung“
Ich werde diese Szene nie vergessen. Als sich während eines der Zwischenlockdowns mein Elektriker endlich wieder in meine Wohnung wagte,
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Linz & Wien: Zweimal „Gräfin Mariza“ von Thomas Enzinger
Kálmáns Gräfin Mariza ist (neben der Csardasfürstin) eine seiner perfektesten, beliebtesten und daher zu Recht jahrein jahraus, landauf landab, im
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Rodgers & Hammerstein Revisited: “The King and I” & “South Pacific” on Jay Records
This morning I had an interesting package on my desktop. Complete recordings of The King and I (1994) and South
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Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture: An Interview with Laurence Senelick
At long last someone has written a brand new Offenbach book – in English. And what’s even better, it’s a
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Stanislavsky and “The Mikado”
Operetta was one of the most successful forms of theatre to go transglobal in the 19th and early 20th century.
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“Linie 1”: Revising Berlin’s Legendary Subway Musical at GRIPS Theater
When Linie 1 premiered in West-Berlin back in 1986, three years before the wall came down and East and West
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“Lustige Witwe”: Barrie Kosky Tackles the “Führer’s” Favorite Operetta in Zurich
In the past, Barrie Kosky has shunned the works of Franz Lehár. His operetta focus has been on works by
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Springtime for Fritzi: A New Play About Massary with Daniela Ziegler
While the world is still waiting for a full-scale bio pic about the life of Fritzi Massary (1882-1969), the Theater
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Paul Lincke’s “Frau Luna” – A Radio Recording from Cologne on CPO
There is no real shortage of Frau Luna recordings, the Paul Lincke classic from 1899 has always worked well as
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Gilbert & Sullivan: Is Sexual Innuendo Imbedded in “HMS Pinafore”?
It is an accepted notion that Gilbert and Sullivan were careful to exclude anything in their comic operas that could
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Alyce Mott Brings Herbert’s “The Red Mill” Back to New York City
This is VHRP Artistic Director Alyce Mott’s fourth go-round with Victor Herbert’s popular musical comedy – originally a vehicle for
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“Czech Operetta and Its Transnational Context”: A Conference in Prague
In March 2023 there’s a three-day conference in Prague devoted to the question of “Czech Operetta and Its Transnational Context”.
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The Battle of the Divas – Desirée Nick, Stefanie Dietrich & Christoph Marti
There are no real operetta divas around anymore. Or are there? It seems that nowadays most sopranos singing the once-famous
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Aus Perspektive eines Operettennostalgikers: „Rebecca“ und „Glöckner“ in Wien
Operettenfreunde in Österreich haben derzeit einen schweren Stand. Im sogenannten „Mekka der Operette“ in Mörbisch wird, seit Altbeau Alfons Haider
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Zwei Offenbach-Premieren in Wien: “Orpheus in der Unterwelt” und “La Périchole”
Wien war einst Jacques Offenbachs „zweites Paris“. 89 seiner Werke wurden hier aufgeführt, einige davon sogar uraufgeführt. Diese Tradition (ja
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“Das ist die Berliner Luft”: Paul Lincke Overtures Volume 1
This newly issued 2020 recording from CPO has rarely been out of my CD player since it arrived: it is
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Daniela Ziegler as the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein – and Other Offenbach Treats
The good news is: Daniela Ziegler finally gets to perform Offenbach and star in an operetta. At the Ernst Deutsch
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Berlin’s “Theater des Volkes”: The Dark Side of Germany’s Entertainment Industry
The history of Berliner Großes Schauspielhaus – birthplace of the great 1920s Eric Charell revues and especially of Im weißen
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The Revival of Joseph Beer Continues: Upcoming Productions in Dresden and Regensburg
To give credit where it‘s due: ever since the label cpo released Joseph Beer’s 1937 operetta Polnische Hochzeit – which
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75 Years of Setting Operetta Standards: The Komische Oper Jubilee
When the Komische Oper opened its doors on 23 December 1947 – in the Soviet controlled section of Berlin –
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Where To Put an Offenbach Festival? Here Are Some Suggestions
If resources enough could be gathered together for an annual festival of Offenbach and maybe his time, where would it
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“Die Rache der Fledermaus” – With Christoph Marti As A Rosalinde In Drag
After a long Corona delay this Fledermaus adaptation by Stefan Huber and Kai Tietje has finally landed in Berlin and
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Oslo Opera Presents “Csárdásfürstin” with a Transgender Sylva
This updated version of the classic Kálmán operetta premiered on 25 November in Norwegian with English subtitles. “Nothing is lost,
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When Will Jacques Offenbach Get His Own Festival? A European Travel Report
For my Christmas present, and to celebrate that Covid is (we must hope) over, I recently traveled to Europe. Over
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Offenbach and the Theatre Bouffe in Saint Petersburg, 1870-1878
Offenbach was introduced to the Russian stage when a French company played La belle Hélène at the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre
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Vive la Révolution: Offenbach’s “Belle Lurette” at New Sussex Opera
New Sussex Opera is a self-funding organisation in the south-east of England that specialises in performing rarely heard operas and
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“Offenbach, Musicien Européen” Or, Put Away the Sellotape
In the summer of 2019 researchers from all around the world gathered for a double conference in Cologne and Paris,
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“Prinz von Preußen”: DDR Musicals Revived in Görlitz and Dresden
The theater in Görlitz had planned to bring back the 1978 DDR musical Prinz von Preußen by Dieter Brand and
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Franz von Suppé: “Mozart” on Tour in Belgium
Yes, there is a Belgian tour of Franz von Suppé’s Mozart. And, yes, that’s the same show that was recently
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Ushering in a New Era: “Dollarprinzessin” at Musikalische Komödie Leipzig
It’s a new dawn in Leipzig. The opera company has a new director, Tobias Wolff, who opened his first season
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Looking for Mr. X: Kálmán’s “Zirkusprinzessin” at Staatsoper Hannover
The 1926 Kálmán hit Die Zirkusprinzessin – with a libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald and the memorable song
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