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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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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It is one man’s enthusiasm that made this possible: the hotel owner Jürgen Haase from Neustrelitz – a picturesque town
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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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Nuremberg is a special place for a conference that wishes to examine “Operetta in Nazi Times.” Because the so called
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The summer season for operetta has started, and various festivals are about to open. Coming up in Baden, near Vienna,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In November 1951, composer Frederick Loewe and librettist Alan Jay Lerner premiered Paint Your Wagon, their homage to the American
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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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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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We could not agree more with this statement of Red Blonde Productions and West Sussex Opera: “What Cabaret was to
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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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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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I recommend booking travel tickets now for Budapest – to arrive before June 9, 2016. That’s the date of the
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Noel Coward. His name has become a kind of cliché, in the decades since his death, as the epitome of
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Every country, and every generation for that matter, has its “no. 1” tenor. In Germany, back in the 1920s and
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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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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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Deep among the indelible memories of my theatergoing life are singer Lynnie Godfrey sprawled on a piano suggestively growling “Daddy”
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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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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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Wenn man seine Dissertation über ein Werk wie Die Herzogin von Chicago geschrieben hat, wenn man all die Aufnahmen von
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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 wildly popular 1897 comic operetta, The Serenade, forever changed the landscape of musical theater in America and abroad!
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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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The genre operetta was invented around 1850 in Paris, as a new and independent musical theater form in the modern
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You will recall that the Tipi-Zelt-am-Kanzleramt in Berlin is preparing a new fully commercial production of Paul Linckes operetta Frau
read more![Albert SZIRMAI [aka SIRMAY]: b Budapest, 2 July 1880; d New York, 15 January 1967](http://operetta-research-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sirmay-436x291.jpg "Albert SZIRMAI [aka SIRMAY]: b Budapest, 2 July 1880; d New York, 15 January 1967")
Szirmai was a top-flight Hungarian composer whose career faded when he left home. He studied at the Budapest Zeneakadémia and
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Szibill, first produced at the Király Színház, Budapest, on 27 February 1914, was the peak achievement of the short career
read more![Viktor JACOBI [JAKABFI]: b Budapest, 22 October 1883; d New York, 10 December 1921](http://operetta-research-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Jacobi_Viktor-436x291.jpg "Viktor JACOBI [JAKABFI]: b Budapest, 22 October 1883; d New York, 10 December 1921")
Viktor Jakabfi is one of the group of successful Hungarian composers who dominated the European musical stage in the early
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One does not need much prompting to travel to Cottbus: the small town south-east of Berlin has one of the
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