“…was verloren ging”: A New Book About Operetta Before & After 1933
Im Jahr 2005 profilierte sich die Staatsoperette Dresden mit einer überregional vielbeachteten Konferenz, die den Titel Operette unterm Hakenkreuz trug.
read moreIm Jahr 2005 profilierte sich die Staatsoperette Dresden mit einer überregional vielbeachteten Konferenz, die den Titel Operette unterm Hakenkreuz trug.
read moreIt is one of the more amazing developments of recent years that suddenly “entertainment” is included in major exhibitions dealing
read moreWith the BBC Proms totally ignoring Offenbach’s bicentenary, it has been left to London’s music colleges, small scale opera companies
read moreBigger is not automatically better, some claim, and that’s especially true for operetta, or operetta festivals. So just because the
read moreIn Vienna the great operetta artist Rosy Barsony has found her final resting place. The Jewish performer was born as
read moreThe operetta summer festival in Rüdersdorf – just outside of Berlin, down in the south-east – has gone through some
read moreAfter having been forgotten for more than 80 year, new interest in Paul Ábrahám’s Märchen im Grand-Hotel is noticeable. You’ll
read moreNo, this is not scheduled as a mid-summer treat to coincide with the various operetta festival productions in Austria: the
read moreThe show title Abenteuer im Spielzeugland might not directly ring a bell. But if you translate it into Babes in
read moreWhen I was about eight years old I have vivid memories of my mother doing the housework, continually singing “Oh,
read moreImagine sitting under the stars in a beautiful German Schlossgarten, totally relaxed, watching a hugely enjoyable operetta by Emmerich Kálmán
read moreThe original composer chosen für Die lustige Witwe by authors Leo Stein and Victor Léon was: Richard Heuberger. After he
read moreIt is so easy to rip a performance apart. But what do you do if you see perfection? Alright, if
read moreJacques Offenbach could not have asked for a better way to curry favour for theatre priveleges than by publishing a
read moreOne cannot call them “reviews,” since I don’t read music, and a performance has to be either very good or
read moreWould Brother Jacob have been amused? In any case, the Parisian Opéra-Comique (with a hyphen, meaning the actual opera house,
read more“More than any other art form, fashion most fully embraces and expresses camp’s exuberant aesthetic, excelling in its ability to
read moreFirst you’ve never heard of Grüezi at all, even though the artists who created it are all artists you’ve known
read moreThe 1922 Madame Pompadour is not only one of Leo Fall’s last stage works (he died in 1925), it is
read moreThe Queen of Offenbach’s Bouffes? Oh, yes, I hear the unenlightened nod. ‘Hortense Schneider. We’ve all heard of her’. I:
read moreToday, in the expanses of Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia, with only the workmen as witnesses, a vacant-looking plot of earth
read moreAt Komische Oper Berlin, Paul Ábrahám’s ‘last’ operetta premiered in a new production by Stefan Huber, with a newly arranged
read moreWith all the attention being given to Offenbach, it is easy to forget that 2019 is also the bicentenary of
read moreGerman regional theatres excel in searching out rarely performed stage works and often breathing new life into them. Le Roi
read moreMonsieur Marius (Claude Marius Duplany, b Paris, 18 February 1850) was a ‘Frenchman, play producer, actor, raconteur, and optimist’ (they
read moreÉdouard Théodore Nicole, better known as Léonce (b Paris, 12 January 1820) was a slim, bespectacled (off-stage) low comedian with
read moreIn 1847 the young comedian known as Désiré asked Hervé for a two-handed musical sketch to play at his benefit.
read moreWith an Offenbach conference coming up in June in Cologne that includes a section dedicated to “Discourses and Identities” and
read moreThe World Heritage city of Hildesheim, 20 miles south-east of Hannover, possesses a charming, intimate, 600-seater theatre staging opera, musicals
read moreMy journey with Oscar Straus all began when a colleague at a music conservatory where we worked handed me the
read moreAs I sit watching the current TV series Fosse/Verdon, starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as two show business legends,
read moreIn November 2018 I reviewed a concert performance of Howard Goodall’s Girlfriends, recommending his previous musical The Hired Man which
read moreBenatzky’s 1930 hit Meine Schwester und ich in a new Wien Volksoper production is totally delightful and enchantingly charming. More
read moreThis admirable young company finished its fifth season with Victor Herbert’s hit, Sweethearts, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre
read moreFinally – and that’s really the only appropriate word for it: finally the updated 1950s movie version of Die Fledermaus,
read moreNot seen in London since its original production at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1968, when it starred Keith Michell as
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