Emmerich Kálmáns Graf Tassilo (Gräfin Mariza, Buch Julius Brammer / Alfred Grünwald) verkörpert einen Typus, den das Publikum der Uraufführung
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I had really been looking forward to seeing the new production of Der Zigeunerbaron in Vienna because I had enjoyed
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As the times of self-isolation continue, so does the catching up on old and new operetta releases that I’ve been
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When the world is under quarantine and everything is shut down because of a new virus – you have lots
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It’s Franz Lehár’s 150th birthday coming up in April, and various authors and publishing houses are getting ready to celebrate
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It took Berlin based musical theater researcher Wolfgang Jansen a while, and it took the various legal departments even more
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The folk who created the musical works of Meilhac, Halévy, Crémieux, Hervé and their colleagues, and of the parallel composers,
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Alyce Mott’s enterprising company Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! dedicated to all things Victor Herbert risked alienating the operetta regulars
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It’s a daring and adventurous undertaking: while everyone else is busy with “The (New) Twenties” these days, Komische Oper Berlin
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Offenbach’s 1857 Vent du soir, ou l’horrible festin is one of his more famous titles in the German speaking theater
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It’s mind boggling that the entire operetta repertoire created and performed in the former DDR between 1949 and 1990 has
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“Blindekuh”, literally “blind cow”, is the German term for the “blind man’s buff” game – and it is the title
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The Offenbach bicentenary might be over – but there are still fascinating things coming out to celebrate the composer. One
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Offenbach and “The Hispanic Vogue”? As it turns out, there are two interesting new recordings out on Palazzetto Bru Zane
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As part of their Johann Strauss “rediscovery series” the label Naxos is releasing the 1878 operetta Blindekuh which premiered at
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One of the more joyous things about recent new studies on musicals is the fact that they include operettas, without
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At the end of March 2020, the Nationaltheater Weimar will host an international conference entitled “Musiktheater und Kolonialismus,” i.e. musical
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“Wonderfully opinionated, outrageously frank, and always sensible” Yes, that was me. I suppose it still is … but in 1991
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The team responsible for that overwhelming hit of 1926, The Desert Song, mined a similar vein for their next collaboration,
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The small theater in Zwickau-Plauen (Germany) presented Victor Herbert’s much-loved Babes in Toyland as their Christmas spectacle and gave the
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How many female operetta composers can you name? Here is one who was also a baroness, no less. Her operetta
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The New Year’s concert from Vienna, with the Vienna Philharmonic, is a beloved tradition for many. It rarely has anything
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The Rotter brothers, Fritz and Alfred, were the most prominent private theater directors during the Weimar Republic before losing everything
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Some will claim that Hello Dolly, Mame or La Cage aux Folles are among the greatest modern operettas in the
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If expectations are exceptionally high for a Paul Abraham operetta at Komische Oper Berlin that’s because, in the past, the
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It was about bloody time, you might say, that someone published a new English language reference book on the history
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Stephen Sondheim’s Follies is the Mt. Everest of US-American musical theatre, his most searching and self-reflexive study of the genre
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Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin celebrated its 40th anniversary this year with a musical/chanson themed contest. The gala concert of the finalists
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Amélie is a charming, whimsical, musical, based on a 2001 French Film, which was originally (2015) staged in California, and
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No one can really claim that there is not an abundance of exciting Offenbach literature that has been published since
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Artistic Director Ted Sperling conducted a splendid concert reading of George and Ira Gershwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1933 musical Of Thee
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When Victor Herbert’s musical comedy The Debutante premiered in New York in 1914, it had the misfortune to occur the
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Composer Jean Gilbert (1879-1942) might have been one of the most successful German operetta stars in the pre-WW1 years, he
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So here it is, the world’s “first gay opera guide,” or so the publisher claims. It’s a small Berlin based
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It’s hard to believe, but this is actually only the second fully staged production of Paul Abraham’s Märchen im Grand
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This is totally delightful! Francisco Barbieri (1823-94) was the leading exponent of the zarzuela revival of the mid-19th century. He
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