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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Harnoncourt Stages “Der Zigeunerbaron” In Langenlois
It’s kind of special: Philipp Harnoncourt (yes, the son of the other Harnoncourt) is staging Der Zigeunerbaron at Schloss Haindorf
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MILF Scene of the Year: A New “Nacht in Venedig” From Mörbisch
There is no shortage of Eine Nacht in Venedig recordings. Some of them are all-time classics, such as the Elisabeth
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Demonstration der Homosexuellen: Skandalscenen in der Komischen Oper!
This in an article from the magazine Das Freundschaftsblatt, 8 July, 1927, reporting on a ground breaking incident in the
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A Live-Stage “Show Boat” On DVD: For The First Time?
When the San Francisco Opera puts on a show like Show Boat it raises expectations. The company has a chorus
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Hatice Point The Way: Black- And Yellow-Face in Operetta
Most people would probably agree: operetta is all about performance. And, more to the point, about turning realities upside down
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A Black “Merry Widow of Malagawi”: Re-Imagining A Classic
Another Merry Widow? Yeah, we hear you. (And you’re right.) It’s probably the most over-produced operetta in operetta history, together
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Walter Felsenstein Revisited: A New Biography
Stage director Walter Felsenstein (1901-1975) is famous for various things: he founded the Komische Oper in East Berlin after WW2
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A Double-Disc Of Herbert’s “Dream City And The Magic Knight”
Victor Herbert is best known today for half a dozen elaborately musical operettas composed in the first decade and a
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A New Musical Director For Leipzig: Stefan Klingele
There’s movement and an overdue sense of innovation at the Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig: the second remaining operetta theater left
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“Don’t Be A Music Snob About Operettas”: Advise From Gardening Guru Alan Titchmarsh
If you’re British, you undoubtedly will have heard of Alan Titchmarsh, the man who went from gardener to Classical FM
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“I Want To Be A Primadonna”: Christoph Marti Turns 50 Today
It’s a ultra-pink birthday today, and a reason for the operetta world to celebrate one of its greatest divas of
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A New “Duchess of Chicago” From Ohio Light Opera
As everyone knows, the Ohio Light Opera is one of the prime performance venues for lesser known works of Emmerich
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“Frühjahrsparade”: The Robert Stolz Operetta At Wilfersdorf Castle
Robert Stolz was a superb operetta conductor, as is documented by many recordings made in the famous Rudolf Schock/Margit Schramm
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The “Csardasfürstin” From Budapest
It’s holiday time, obviously. So unless you’re on your way to some summer festival, chances that you’ll catch a regular
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“Orphee Aux Enfers” At Iford Festival: An Enjoyable Romp
The UK based company Opera della Luna has just presented their version of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at the
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Arthur Schnitzler And His Operettas
Playwrite and author Arthur Schnitzler had a special relationship with music, not least, because many of his famous texts were
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Heiteres Musiktheater schwelgt in Nostalgie: “In Frisco ist der Teufel los”
In Frisco ist der Teufel los war einer der größten Erfolge des „musikalischen Unterhaltungstheaters“ der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik – „Heiteres
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Patrick Lindner Sings Operetta, Or: A Deliciously Gay “Im Weissen Rössl”
You didn’t seriously think we’d leave this one out, did you? The Rüdersdorfer Sommeroperette is presenting the White Horse Inn
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“La Vie Parisienne” in Tilburg at MIDI
This week-end, Dutch operetta fans can see a brand new student production of La Vie Parisienne at the Fontys Conservatory.
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Gay Pride Season 2015 or: Uniformed Men On The Operetta Stage
There is a special connection between police forces – and operetta! Whether it is Offenbach’s Les Brigands or Genevieve de
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