Emily Soldene: In Search of a Singer
I don’t suppose the name means very much nowadays to anyone but a handful of music and theatre historians. Emily
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“Operette kan ook anders”
Nederlanders kennen maar één soort operette, eentje die vaak oubollig en saai gevonden wordt. Gek is dat niet: er is
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Kalman’s Tango-Operetta “Der kleine König” at Ohio This Summer
The Ohio Light Opera in Wooster (“America’s Premiere Lyric Theatre Festival”) has announced its 2014 season. It will make fans
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“Aladdin,” Move Over! Here Come the Real “Arabian Nights”
You probably noticed it too: New York is in a state of shivering anticipation right now about the latest animated
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Vorsätzlich vergessen? Die Operette der DDR
In der Ausstellung “Welt der Operette” wurde jüngst in Wien und München auf das “Heitere Musiktheater” der DDR hingewiesen, aber
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“Made in Berlin”: Otto Schneidereit Revisited
There’s a lot of talk, again, these days about „Operetta Made In Berlin”—how it differs from other German language types
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Liberace on the Blue Danube
I don’t think I have been to a solo piano concert since I was at school. Julius Katchen. Lili Kraus.
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“Ich heiße ganz bescheiden…Max Hansen”
It’s about time, you might say, that someone remembered the great Max Hansen and made him the center of a
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The Metropolis Experiment
The Wien Museum Karlsplatz will open a new exhibition entitled Experiment Metropole on 5 May, 2014. It will focus on
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Retro-Muschi: La Nick und der “Schwanz, der noch ficken will und kann”
In der Berliner Theaterszene hängt natürlich immer alles mit allem zusammen. Irgendwie. Was ja auch den besonderen Reiz unserer Hauptstadt
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Lohengrin Meets Lloyd Webber
First off: I actually like Klaus Florian Vogt. Hearting him as Lohengrin and Stolzing in Wagner’s operas is a unique
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Sweeney Todd: Der teuflische Barbier von Freak Street
I’m just back – exhausted – from Magdeburg. Yes, I didn’t know where it was either. But I do now,
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“Les Mousquetaires au couvent” back in Paris
We bet you didn’t especially wait for a new production of Strauss’ Fledermaus, right? Well, the Opéra Comique is going
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NAUGHTY MARIETTA Musical comedy in 2 acts
Naughty Marietta was written as a commission from impresario Oscar Hammerstein, a transfuge from the world of opera, for a
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Neil Patrick Harris as a Transgender Entertainer
Neil Patrick Harris is at the very top of his considerable game in an electrifying turn as playwright John Cameron
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“Orange Blossoms”: Performed by Light Opera of New York
LOONY (Light Opera of New York) raised its own bar by several notches with their latest production. For starters, although
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Wie einst im Mai – 1943 vs. 1913
Für alle, die unlängst das ZDF-Magazin aspekte gesehen haben: Es gibt neben der dort zelebrierten Berliner Jazz- und Revueoperette der
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Offenbach’s “Orpheus” in Berlin
Am 18. Dezember 1983 erlebte die Deutsche Oper Berlin eine kleine Sternstunde heiteren Musiktheaters. In der dritten Spielzeit seiner Intendanz
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“Madame Pompadour”: Battle of the Divas
Needless to say, casting Leo Fall’s Madame Pompadour is not an easy task. Because there’s the overwhelming shadow of Fritzi
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MENSCHENsKIND: The Songs of Friedrich Holländer
Needless to say, German operetta fans already know her: the actress Dagmar Manzel dazzled audiences at Berlin’s Deutsches Schauspielhaus years
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Erik Charell (April 8, 1894 – July 15, 1974)
Charell was born as Erich Karl Löwenberg in Breslau. He was the first child of Markus Löwenberg and Ida Korach.
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“The New Moon”: Romberg Performed By LOONY
This isn’t the first time this fearless little company has attempted a great big operetta that, by all rights, should
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Rodgers & Hart’s ‘Native Operetta’: A New “Dearest Enemy” Cast Album
Aye, you might very well ask: why is a recording of Rodgers & Hart’s “American Musical Comedy” Dearest Enemy coming
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Cross-Dressing in Operetta: A New Catalogue from Munich
Now, here’s a topic for a book publication to make our operetta hearts beat faster: Ein Bild von einem Mann
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Victor Herbert’s Fabulous “Lohengrin” Spoof
LOONY’s real season doesn’t get underway till 2014 when they’ll be doing full productions of Sigmund Romberg’s The New Moon
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“Um acht beginnt die Nacht”: Lehar program in Berlin
I don’t know what it is about Lehar that attracts so many people. Well, that’s not entirely true. I do
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“Orpheus in der Unterwelt” Live From Berlin 1984 – The Götz Friedrich Production On DVD
It’s a historic document, of a special kind: when the Deutsche Oper Berlin was the only opera company in good
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Maybe Art Imitates Arabs: “The Road to Qatar”
It all began with an email. “We want you write musical … how much?” Was my Spam blocker set on
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THE STUDENT PRINCE Musical play in 2 acts
The Student Prince was not the first musical to be based on Meyer-Förster’s 1901 Studentenstück Alt Heidelberg (Berliner Theater 22
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HERVÉ: Florimond Ronger (b Houdain, 30 June 1825; d Paris, 3 November 1892)
Florimond Ronger, known to the musical and theatrical world simply as Hervé, was one of the great characters in,
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Gender, Genre & Parody
Quite simply put, this is the best book on Gilbert & Sullivan that I have come across. Not in a
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Burning to Sing: Gustave Kerker’s Operetta Rediscovered
It’s good to know that German operetta aficionados are busy rediscovering gems from the vaults of the genre’s history. And,
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Kálmán Gala from Dresden: Happy New Year
So here it is, the Emmerich Kálmán gala from Dresden’s Semperoper on CD. Christian Thielemann is conducting the forces of
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Operetten Over The Rainbow
Nacktes Fleisch, Frivolitäten, feminin-lamboyante Männer, »blasende Hirten«, selbstbewusste Frauen – die Operetten der 1920er und 1930er Jahre haben mit dem
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The 19th century’s most popular musical-theatre composer: Jacques Offenbach
The son of a German bookbinder, music-teacher and cantor called Eberst, but known as Offenbach, the young Jacob was given
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Altenburg bei Paris? Or: “Toi c’est moi”
Yesterday I went to Altenburg. I know, even my German friends say ‘where?’. Well, it’s a lovely town in Thüringen,
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