Meet Rothschilds & Sons: The Bock/Harnick Show Returns Rewritten
Though Broadway’s The Rothschilds in 1970 was far from a megahit on the scale of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s
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Race And Operetta: The Next Frontier?
It is often interesting to compare how researchers in different parts of the Western world look at art forms in
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Oscar Straus – Ein deutscher Offenbach?
Yes, there’s a new book on Oscar Straus, that often over-looked composer of Ein Walzertraum but also of Die lustigen
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Broadway Does Operetta. Or: From Dallas To Philadelphia
The folks in Philadelphia are at it again this weekend. They will be presenting a concert called Broadway Does Operetta,
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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
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“The Pirates of Penzance” Conquer New York, Again!
Gilbert & Sullivan’s ever popular comic opera was the second foray into the fabled duo’s work from the Collegiate Chorale
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Kunst der Oberfläche: Operette zwischen Bravour & Banalität
The Komische Oper Berlin – together with researchers Bettina Brandl-Risi and Clemens Risi – has put together a highly diverse
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Selling Johann Strauss With A “Fake” Reconstruction?
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Johann Strauss’s final work for the stage, the ballet Aschenbrödel. Most of
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“Arizona Lady” Comes To Arizona Opera In October 2015
The Jewish News reports on the upcoming first performance of the complete Arizona Lady by Emmerich Kalman – in (get
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Danilo In Dachau: The Man Who Battled Heesters Dies Age 81
Many younger people in Germany might not know Volker Kühn – and many people in the English speaking world have
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“Spring Awakening” With Deaf Actors
I must confess that I admired more than loved Spring Awakening in its 2007 Broadway premiere, and really didn’t care
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Bringing Operetta To The Arab World – Without Sex Or Alcohol!
Leaving titles such as Arabian Nights, Kismet and Desert Song aside, the Middle East is not generally a region which
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“Viktoria und ihr Husar” Coming Up in Altenburg
Is it just my imagination, or is there a noticeable increase in Abraham productions lately? While the Komische Oper Berlin
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“The Riviera Girl”: Kálmán on Broadway 1917
Emmerich Kálmán’s Csardasfürstin opened on Broadway, at the New Amsterdam Theater, on 24 September 1917 under the new American title
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“Mischa, Marlene and Me” At The Neue Galerie In New York
The one and only Steve Ross returns to the Café Sabarsky, that fabelhaft cabaret in New York’s Neue Galerie, 1048
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The Big Operetta “Virgin Cherry Pop”: A New Study By Albert Gier
A great big new academic book on operetta, in German: Professor Albert Gier, renowned libretto researcher at the University of
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MÁGNÁS MISKA: Operetta in 3 acts by Albert Szirmai
Produced in Budapest during the most fecund period in Hungarian operetta, Albert Szirmai’s 1916 wartime piece Mágnás Miska (Miska the
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Barihunks Goes Operetta With Thomas Weinhappel
You might have heard of the – highly informative and entertaining – blog Barihunks. It’s dedicated to hunky baritones who
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“Sarg’ Niemals Nie” At Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft
Da hat sich die Berliner Bar jeder Vernunft tatsächlich drei neue Künstler ins Spiegelzelt geholt, die attraktiv und atemberaubend talentiert
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Emmerich Kálmán’s “Die Csárdásfürstin”: A Historic Overview
One of the most successful, and certainly the most widely enduring of Kálmán’s operettas, Die Csárdásfürstin was nevertheless composed to
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Male-To-Female Cross Dressing: “Rotes Sofa” Talk In Leipzig
Men dressed up as women: that’s nothing new in the world of operetta. In many Offenbach shows, this kind of
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A Carl Millöcker World-Premiere: “Der Sackpfeifer”
You would not really expect a world premiere of a Carl Millöcker operetta in 2015, right? But that’s exactly what
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“Baby, You Can Can-Can Too”
In their 2015 summer season, the Ohio Light Opera presented the original stage version of Cole Porter’s Can-Can. It’s a
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Coming Up On Broadway: “Dames At Sea” And Other Delights
With the regular theater season in Europe re-opening with some funky returning operetta productions, e.g. at the Komische Oper Berlin
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Re-Sizing “Die Fledermaus” For Switzerland
The poster might not look particularly innovative, but the Quickchange Company in the Swiss town of Zug will present “Operetta
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Kálmán’s “Princesse Czardas” On The Cote D’Azur
An operetta festival in Nice, South of France? Yes, it exists, and this year is already its 14th edition, devoted
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Desirée Nick: “Ich bin die größte Diva von allen!”
Die singende Entertainerin und TV-Phänomen Desirée Nick ist derzeit in der Sat1-Show Promi Big Brother zu bestaunen (und so ziemlich
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Musical Of The Month At NY’s Public Library: “Golden Dawn”
The New York Public Library is devoting its current “Musical of the Month” to Emmerich Kálmán’s Golden Dawn, a show
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Could “The Song Of Norway” Be Staged In Disney’s “Frozen” Fasion For A New Generation?
If you have any teenage girls – or younger – in your circle of friends, chances are high that you’ve
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The Origins Of Lerner & Loewe’s “Brigadoon”
You will recall that the Ohio Light Opera presented Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon as part of their 2015 summer season.
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“Viktoria und ihr Husar”: Mörbisch’s 2016 Festival Program
The operetta festival of Mörbisch, in Austria, had already announced its title for 2016: Paul Abraham’s Viktoria und ihr Husar,
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“Hamilton”: America’s Founding Fathers Set To Hip-Hop
Quadruple threat librettist-composer-lyricist-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) has conceived an utterly original, ambitious, irresistible new musical inspired by Ron
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DDR Operetta Composer Gerd Natschinski Dead
Outside of Germany, or more specifically East Germany, few people will know who Gerd Natschinski is. The composer who died
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“Amazing Grace”: A Slave Trader Musical
This is a reasonably compelling, resourcefully staged, and certainly richly designed story of slave trader John Newton and how he
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The 2015 Ohio Light Opera Season. Or: Operetta Delights in Wooster
Though an unfortunate scheduling conflict prevented my attending this delightful company’s second annual symposium as I did last year, I
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The (Fun) Little Faust
Mephisto warned us right at the beginning of tonight’s performance that we wouldn’t leave weeping over Marguerite’s fate. I sincerely
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