American soprano Nadine Secunde is probably not someone you’d immediately associate with operetta or musical comedy, or light(er) music in
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How could we get through January 1st without the obligatory New Year’s Concert from Vienna? The 2016 edition was conducted
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Retrospect Opera, a registered charity in Britain, has launched a project to record the operetta Pickwick (1889) by Sir Francis
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Am 1. Januar 2016 wird das kommerziell erfolgreiche Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker im Großen „goldenen“ Saal des Musikvereinsals „75-jähriges Jubiläum“
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Recently, ORCA received a generous donation in the form of various Gilbert & Sullivan materials that a researcher in the
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Will he “come back”? Will Emmerich Kalman succeed in duplicating the tremendous success of his Countess Maritza, which has been
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Berlin’s ultra-hip and queer urban magazine Siegessäule has published a hot list of the top 5 films and stage productions
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Am 12. März 1938 nachmittags hatten sich in der Wohnung des Dramaturgen und Regisseurs Kurt Hellmer in Naschmarktnähe ein paar
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Why not have something visually refreshing this week-end? The classical music blog “Barihunks” reported today, that Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin
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This meticulous reconstruction of composer Joseph Rumshinsky’s 1923 operetta Di Goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) may well be the most
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Yes, it comes as a bit of a surprise to hear Yvonne Kálmán – of all people – say about
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Das Gärtnerplatztheater in München ist hundertfünfzig geworden. Gefeiert wurde das Jubiläum jedoch außerhalb, weil das Haus saniert wird. Ein vergrößerter
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Should anyone be surprised? The new production of My Fair Lady at the Komische Oper Berlin is sold out to
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In a very bitter twist of irony, it happened at the exact same moment when Islamic terrorists struck in Paris,
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The students of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,“ in Leipzig, will present their version and vision
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This week, there will be a concert performance of Leoncavallo’s one-and-only operetta Zazà at the Barbican in London. It’s a
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Today, soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf would have celebrated her 100th birthday. That’s a perfect occasion to remember her enormous recorded legacy,
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Yes, here it finally is: the original cast album and DVD version of Grimm. This fairy tale musical, with some
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Director/choreographer Randy Skinner’s production of the 1968 Off-Broadway charmer – a delicious take-off on those Busby Berkeley musicals of the
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Ever since conductor Florian Ziemen came to Gießen, the opera house there has presented some unusual operetta rediscovery projects: Gustav
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Listening to Kander & Ebb’s The Visit – their adaptation of Durrenmatt’s Besuch der alten Dame – with an operetta
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Sometimes you wonder why the opera world – of all possible spaces – can pull off such a stunt, but
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It would seem that cowboys are back en vogue everywhere, not just in Hollywood with blockbusters such as Django Unchained
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This week-end, the Budapest Operetta Theatre is hosting a conference on Die Csardasfürstin, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of that
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You might say: wow, the Americans are catching on! Or differently put, the announcement of the latest concert by the
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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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It is often interesting to compare how researchers in different parts of the Western world look at art forms in
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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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The folks in Philadelphia are at it again this weekend. They will be presenting a concert called Broadway Does Operetta,
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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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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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The Komische Oper Berlin – together with researchers Bettina Brandl-Risi and Clemens Risi – has put together a highly diverse
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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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The Jewish News reports on the upcoming first performance of the complete Arizona Lady by Emmerich Kalman – in (get
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Many younger people in Germany might not know Volker Kühn – and many people in the English speaking world have
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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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