Josef E. Köpplinger’s New Version of “Viktoria und ihr Husar” In Munich
What is arguably Paul Abraham’s musically strongest operetta, Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930), has been given a new production by
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A Re-Written And New “Paint Your Wagon” In Seattle
How very much I wish I could recommend the all new version of Paint Your Wagon in its world premiere
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GIUDITTA: Musical play in 5 scenes by Paul Knepler and Fritz Löhner-Beda. Music by Franz Lehár
Giuditta was the last of the series of darkly coloured romantic operettas (this one purposely titled ‘musikalische Komödie’) composed by
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Lehár’s “Giuditta”: A New Recording From Munich With Ulf Schirmer
There are many reasons why one can fall head-over-heels for Lehar’s “musikalische Komödie” Giuditta, first produced in January 1934 at
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„Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech’ dich damit tot!“ Die Entnazifizierung der NS-Operette zwischen 1945 und 2015
Nach der sogenannten „Stunde Null“ am 8. Mai 1945 hatten die Menschen in Deutschland mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit andere Sorgen, als sich
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Benatzky’s “Bezauberndes Fräulein” In Switzerland
Ralph Benatzky’s “Musikalisches Lustspiel” Bezauberndes Fräulein (1933) is a true delight. As anyone knows who has ever heard the wonderful
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Two “Im weißen Rössl” Exhibtions In Neustrelitz
It is one man’s enthusiasm that made this possible: the hotel owner Jürgen Haase from Neustrelitz – a picturesque town
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“Operette: hipp oder miefig?” The New Issue Of The Österreichische Musikzeitschrift
It doesn’t happen too often that a musicological magazine dedicates an entire issue to “operetta”: with eight short essays dealing
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“Leichte Muse im Wandel der Zeit”: A Conference On Nazi Operetta In Nuremberg
Nuremberg is a special place for a conference that wishes to examine “Operetta in Nazi Times.” Because the so called
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Summer Operetta Season In Baden: “Frasquita” And “Dreimäderlhaus”
The summer season for operetta has started, and various festivals are about to open. Coming up in Baden, near Vienna,
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World Premiere Recording: Kálmán’s “The Little King” From Ohio
Could any musical comedy from 1912 be more up-to-date from today’s war-on-terror-perspective? This is the story of a revolution of
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Michael Colby’s “Charlotte Sweet” Or: When Musicals Were Fun
More years ago than I care to count, I was staying at New York’s Algonquin Hotel, in my capacity as
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Paul Lincke’s “Frau Luna” At The Tipi Tent In Berlin
Most people outside of Germany will probably know Paul Lincke’s 1899 hit show Frau Luna because of the rousing march
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“Berlin Non Stop”: A New Musical For The German Capital?
Isn’t it strange that the city of Berlin is so popular, with young (and not so young) hormone-driven tourists from
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“West Side Story” Comparing Interpretations On Deutschlandradio Kultur
Most people will probably ask: what does West Side Story have to do with operetta? Isn’t it anything but an
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“A Little Night Music” In Bielefeld: Starring Tobias Licht And Johanna Spantzel
There are those who consider Sondheim’s A Little Night Music the greatest of all modern operettas. And in a way,
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Ghostlight Records New Lerner & Loewe “Paint Your Wagon”: Starring Keith Carradine
In November 1951, composer Frederick Loewe and librettist Alan Jay Lerner premiered Paint Your Wagon, their homage to the American
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UdK Berlin: “Ich meine, es geht ja doch darum, ein Leben zu führen, das einem keine Qual ist”
It is always refreshing to see new and awe-inspiring talent. The so called “collages” at the Universität der Künste (UdK)
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A Major Star Of 19th Century French Musical Theatre: Jean-François Philibert Berthelier
Jean-François Philibert Berthelier (b Panissières, Loire, 14 December 1828; d Paris, 29 September 1888) was a comic actor and singer
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“Bouffe”: A New Theater Piece About Offenbach And Hortense Schneider At The Brighton Fringe Festival
We could not agree more with this statement of Red Blonde Productions and West Sussex Opera: “What Cabaret was to
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Light Opera of New York: Jerome Kern’s “Sally”
Charm was in abundance at Light Opera of New York’s semi-staged concert reading of Jerome Kern’s 1920 musical smash Sally,
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“Stars Of David”: The Influence Of Jewish Artists On Popular Music
It’s not every day that you get to see images of Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss Jr. and Richard Tauber right
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An Historically Rich “Duchess of Chicago” in Budapest
I recommend booking travel tickets now for Budapest – to arrive before June 9, 2016. That’s the date of the
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A Noel Coward 4-CD Box: The Complete HMV Recordings
Noel Coward. His name has become a kind of cliché, in the decades since his death, as the epitome of
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Zsolt Vadász: “Land des Lächelns” in St. Petersburg And Tassilo In Munich
Every country, and every generation for that matter, has its “no. 1” tenor. In Germany, back in the 1920s and
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“Südseetulpen”: An Operetta World-Premier In Chemnitz
Does the world really need a new operetta written today, in our post-operetta times? If the answer is something as
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“Staat macht lustig? Zeitgenössische Operette im sozialistischen Rumänien und der DDR”
On Monday, 9 May, Deutschlandradio Kultur will broadcast a 50-minute feature about operetta on socialist countries such as the DDR
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“Shuffle Along”: The Making of the 1921 Musical Sensation
Deep among the indelible memories of my theatergoing life are singer Lynnie Godfrey sprawled on a piano suggestively growling “Daddy”
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“Gräfin Mariza” At The Deutsches Theater Munich
Fans of 1920′s jazz operettas don’t usually consider Kálmán’s Gräfin Mariza a modern syncopated show. Instead, they put this international
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Albert von Tilzer’s “The Gingham Girl”: A New Cast Album
The Operetta Foundation in Los Angeles has made a brand new cast album of Albert von Tilzer’s 1922 Broadway hit
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“Die Herzogin von Chicago”: Teaching Budapest The Charleston Again
Wenn man seine Dissertation über ein Werk wie Die Herzogin von Chicago geschrieben hat, wenn man all die Aufnahmen von
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“American Psycho”: Benjamin Walker Stars As Patrick Bateman
Bret Easton Ellis’ once – and perhaps still – notorious novel about an affluent Wall Street investment banker/serial killer, the
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Victor Herbert’s “Serenade” (1897) Returns To New York
Victor Herbert’s wildly popular 1897 comic operetta, The Serenade, forever changed the landscape of musical theater in America and abroad!
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Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live: “The Serenade”
Inasmuch as anyone revives Victor Herbert’s melodious operettas any longer, it is likely to be one of the biggies such
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“Emerging From The Closet Of Representation“: Homosexuality And Same-Sex Marriage On The Musical Theater Stage
The genre operetta was invented around 1850 in Paris, as a new and independent musical theater form in the modern
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“Frau Luna”: Casting Call For Twinkling XXL-Stars In Berlin
You will recall that the Tipi-Zelt-am-Kanzleramt in Berlin is preparing a new fully commercial production of Paul Linckes operetta Frau
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