The Show Of The Moment: “Wiener Blut” In Leipzig
It seems that Wiener Blut is quite the show-of-the-moment. The 1899 operetta is featured in the new publication of the
read moreIt seems that Wiener Blut is quite the show-of-the-moment. The 1899 operetta is featured in the new publication of the
read moreGilbert & Sullivan’s ever popular comic opera was the second foray into the fabled duo’s work from the Collegiate Chorale
read moreThe Komische Oper Berlin – together with researchers Bettina Brandl-Risi and Clemens Risi – has put together a highly diverse
read moreThere has been a lot of controversy surrounding Johann Strauss’s final work for the stage, the ballet Aschenbrödel. Most of
read moreThe Jewish News reports on the upcoming first performance of the complete Arizona Lady by Emmerich Kalman – in (get
read moreMany younger people in Germany might not know Volker Kühn – and many people in the English speaking world have
read moreI must confess that I admired more than loved Spring Awakening in its 2007 Broadway premiere, and really didn’t care
read moreLeaving titles such as Arabian Nights, Kismet and Desert Song aside, the Middle East is not generally a region which
read moreIs it just my imagination, or is there a noticeable increase in Abraham productions lately? While the Komische Oper Berlin
read moreEmmerich Kálmán’s Csardasfürstin opened on Broadway, at the New Amsterdam Theater, on 24 September 1917 under the new American title
read moreThe one and only Steve Ross returns to the Café Sabarsky, that fabelhaft cabaret in New York’s Neue Galerie, 1048
read moreA great big new academic book on operetta, in German: Professor Albert Gier, renowned libretto researcher at the University of
read moreProduced in Budapest during the most fecund period in Hungarian operetta, Albert Szirmai’s 1916 wartime piece Mágnás Miska (Miska the
read moreYou might have heard of the – highly informative and entertaining – blog Barihunks. It’s dedicated to hunky baritones who
read moreDa hat sich die Berliner Bar jeder Vernunft tatsächlich drei neue Künstler ins Spiegelzelt geholt, die attraktiv und atemberaubend talentiert
read moreOne of the most successful, and certainly the most widely enduring of Kálmán’s operettas, Die Csárdásfürstin was nevertheless composed to
read moreMen dressed up as women: that’s nothing new in the world of operetta. In many Offenbach shows, this kind of
read moreYou would not really expect a world premiere of a Carl Millöcker operetta in 2015, right? But that’s exactly what
read moreIn their 2015 summer season, the Ohio Light Opera presented the original stage version of Cole Porter’s Can-Can. It’s a
read moreWith the regular theater season in Europe re-opening with some funky returning operetta productions, e.g. at the Komische Oper Berlin
read moreThe poster might not look particularly innovative, but the Quickchange Company in the Swiss town of Zug will present “Operetta
read moreAn operetta festival in Nice, South of France? Yes, it exists, and this year is already its 14th edition, devoted
read moreDie singende Entertainerin und TV-Phänomen Desirée Nick ist derzeit in der Sat1-Show Promi Big Brother zu bestaunen (und so ziemlich
read moreThe New York Public Library is devoting its current “Musical of the Month” to Emmerich Kálmán’s Golden Dawn, a show
read moreIf you have any teenage girls – or younger – in your circle of friends, chances are high that you’ve
read moreYou will recall that the Ohio Light Opera presented Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon as part of their 2015 summer season.
read moreThe operetta festival of Mörbisch, in Austria, had already announced its title for 2016: Paul Abraham’s Viktoria und ihr Husar,
read moreQuadruple threat librettist-composer-lyricist-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) has conceived an utterly original, ambitious, irresistible new musical inspired by Ron
read moreOutside of Germany, or more specifically East Germany, few people will know who Gerd Natschinski is. The composer who died
read moreThis is a reasonably compelling, resourcefully staged, and certainly richly designed story of slave trader John Newton and how he
read moreThough an unfortunate scheduling conflict prevented my attending this delightful company’s second annual symposium as I did last year, I
read moreMephisto warned us right at the beginning of tonight’s performance that we wouldn’t leave weeping over Marguerite’s fate. I sincerely
read moreIt’s kind of special: Philipp Harnoncourt (yes, the son of the other Harnoncourt) is staging Der Zigeunerbaron at Schloss Haindorf
read moreThere is no shortage of Eine Nacht in Venedig recordings. Some of them are all-time classics, such as the Elisabeth
read moreThis in an article from the magazine Das Freundschaftsblatt, 8 July, 1927, reporting on a ground breaking incident in the
read moreWhen the San Francisco Opera puts on a show like Show Boat it raises expectations. The company has a chorus
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