“Das ist die Berliner Luft”: Paul Lincke Overtures Volume 1
This newly issued 2020 recording from CPO has rarely been out of my CD player since it arrived: it is
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Daniela Ziegler as the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein – and Other Offenbach Treats
The good news is: Daniela Ziegler finally gets to perform Offenbach and star in an operetta. At the Ernst Deutsch
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Berlin’s “Theater des Volkes”: The Dark Side of Germany’s Entertainment Industry
The history of Berliner Großes Schauspielhaus – birthplace of the great 1920s Eric Charell revues and especially of Im weißen
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The Revival of Joseph Beer Continues: Upcoming Productions in Dresden and Regensburg
To give credit where it‘s due: ever since the label cpo released Joseph Beer’s 1937 operetta Polnische Hochzeit – which
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75 Years of Setting Operetta Standards: The Komische Oper Jubilee
When the Komische Oper opened its doors on 23 December 1947 – in the Soviet controlled section of Berlin –
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Where To Put an Offenbach Festival? Here Are Some Suggestions
If resources enough could be gathered together for an annual festival of Offenbach and maybe his time, where would it
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“Die Rache der Fledermaus” – With Christoph Marti As A Rosalinde In Drag
After a long Corona delay this Fledermaus adaptation by Stefan Huber and Kai Tietje has finally landed in Berlin and
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Oslo Opera Presents “Csárdásfürstin” with a Transgender Sylva
This updated version of the classic Kálmán operetta premiered on 25 November in Norwegian with English subtitles. “Nothing is lost,
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When Will Jacques Offenbach Get His Own Festival? A European Travel Report
For my Christmas present, and to celebrate that Covid is (we must hope) over, I recently traveled to Europe. Over
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Offenbach and the Theatre Bouffe in Saint Petersburg, 1870-1878
Offenbach was introduced to the Russian stage when a French company played La belle Hélène at the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre
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Vive la Révolution: Offenbach’s “Belle Lurette” at New Sussex Opera
New Sussex Opera is a self-funding organisation in the south-east of England that specialises in performing rarely heard operas and
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“Offenbach, Musicien Européen” Or, Put Away the Sellotape
In the summer of 2019 researchers from all around the world gathered for a double conference in Cologne and Paris,
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“Prinz von Preußen”: DDR Musicals Revived in Görlitz and Dresden
The theater in Görlitz had planned to bring back the 1978 DDR musical Prinz von Preußen by Dieter Brand and
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Franz von Suppé: “Mozart” on Tour in Belgium
Yes, there is a Belgian tour of Franz von Suppé’s Mozart. And, yes, that’s the same show that was recently
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Ushering in a New Era: “Dollarprinzessin” at Musikalische Komödie Leipzig
It’s a new dawn in Leipzig. The opera company has a new director, Tobias Wolff, who opened his first season
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Looking for Mr. X: Kálmán’s “Zirkusprinzessin” at Staatsoper Hannover
The 1926 Kálmán hit Die Zirkusprinzessin – with a libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald and the memorable song
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Blackface and Crossdressing: The Great Minstrel ‘Prima Donnas’
In the 21st century, when it is considered oh-so-trendy for boys to dress up as girls, the trendy ones (and
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The (Forgotten) World of Greek Operetta – An Interview With Evi Nikita
While many people know Viennese and French operetta, even Spanish Zarzuela and a few Italian titles, Greek operetta is not
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“The Pleasure Garden” and Its Place in the History of LGBT Musicals
In 2021, the “bittersweet musical romance” The Pleasure Garden premiered at the Above the Stag theater in London. It’s a
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Welcome to the Fifties: “The Yeomen of the Guard” at ENO
Forever branded as Gilbert and Sullivan’s “serious” comic opera, The Yeomen of the Guard is in fact a skilful blend
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The False Pirate; or, The Slave of Truth
The Jacques Offenbach Society Newsletter has published in its 101st issue (September 2022) a letter from Jacobo Kaufmann entitled “Copyists
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First Full Recording of Suppé’s “Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen“ on Naxos
In recent years we have seen a splendid series of recordings brought forth – in England, France, Italy – of
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“Dollarprinzessin”: First Productions At Leipzig Opera Under Tobias Wolff
Leipzig Opera has begun the exciting countdown to the first new productions under its new General Director, Tobias Wolff, and
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“Copyists and Pirates”: Jacobo Kaufmann’s Critique of Recent Offenbach Publications
The latest edition of The Jacques Offenbach Society Newsletter includes a letter from Jacobo Kaufmann to editor Donald Fox. Its
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The Revue in Mediterranean Countries – A Conference in Athens
The Laboratory of Research and Documentation of Modern Greek Theatre of the Department of Theatre Studies of National and Kapodistrian
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“The Pleasure Garden“: The LGBT History of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as a Musical
Back in 2004, the Wien Museum presented the exhibition Alt-Wien: Die Stadt, die niemals war. It examined the phenomenon that
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“Indigo und die 40 Räuber“: Gratuitous Nudity at Amtshaus Hietzing?
When Johann Strauss presented his first operetta Indigo und die 40 Räuber in 1871 – as a Thousand-and-One-Nights-spectacle written with
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G&S’s “Patience” Presented by Charles Court Opera in an Updated Version
Charles Court Opera has been described as one of the leading and most versatile chamber music theatre companies in the
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Quirky and Esoteric: Sandy Wilson’s 1958 “Valmouth”
The show was commissioned from Sandy Wilson, the author-composer of The Boy Friend, by Oscar Lewenstein and the Royal Court Theatre as
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The Magic Returns with a Bright New Star: “Operette für zwei schwule Tenöre”
A modern-day operetta about two gay men and their relationship troubles manages to draw in crowds: Operette für zwei schwule
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Revisiting the Emily Soldene Biography. Or: the Postscripta of Publication
When you have spent more than 20 years researching and writing a book, when you have lived and breathed the
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Ernst Theis Conducts “Tonfilmschlager” from Nazi Times
“Can music be innocent?“ That‘s the first sentence in the booklet to this new CD of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and
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“The Grand Duke of Gerolstein”: A Milanese Byblow of the Grand Duchess
La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein was, arguably, Offenbach’s first truly transglobal success. It benefitted from opening during the Exposition universelle
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John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan” (1896)
One of the earliest successful comic operas to come out of America, El Capitan was also the one successful attempt
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Opera Rara Set to Record Offenbach’s “La Princesse de Trébizonde”
The British record label Opera Rara returns to the works of Jacques Offenbach – for the first time since they
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Revisting “Au Dahomey” (1892). Or: A Blackface King Béhazin?
I came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the
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