Benatzky’s “Der König mit dem Regenschirm” for Post-Nazi Audiences
When composer Ralph Benatzky (1884-1957) – fresh from his international triumphs with Casanova, The Three Musketeers and White Horse Inn
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Carl Zeller und sein “Vogelhändler”
Am 10. Jänner 1891 wurde Carl Zellers Operette Der Vogelhändler am Theater an der Wien uraufgeführt. Die Zeitungen vermelden, dass
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New Benatzky Biography by Fritz Hennenberg
A new biography of White Horse Inn-composer Ralph Benatzky is out, written by Benatzky- (and Bertold Brecht-) expert Fritz Hennenberg.
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Marion Linhardt: “Stimmen zur Unterhaltung” and “Residenzstadt und Metropole”
Wonderful and important news for all (German speaking) operetta fans: Marion Linhardt has edited the first ever collection of primary
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Offenbach, the Opéra-Comique and “Vert-Vert”
In 1867, the year of the extravagant Paris Exposition Universelle , Offenbach’s success reached its apogee. His new opera bouffes,
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DIE LUSTIGE WITWE Operette in 3 acts
Henri Meilhac’s play L’Attaché d’ambassade, produced at Paris’s Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1861, was not a success. It was played
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Operette untern Hakenkreuz
This interesting book contains 13 papers by different authors, delivered in symposium at the Dresden Staatsoperette (the one subsidized theatre
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Oscar Hammerstein’s Complete Lyrics Tells the Story of One Man’s Struggle
Between 1943 and 1959, the lyricist-librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) and his composer partner, Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), transformed American popular
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Entre Nous: Celebrating Offenbach
Offenbachianer werden die neue 2-CD-Box Entre Nous. Celebrating Offenbach des englischen Entdecker-Labels Opera Rara mit einem lachenden und einem weinenden
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Die transatlantische Operette: Vom Flirt des Operettenkomponisten Emmerich Kálmán mit dem Broadway
Ein dickes Buch, das sich aber flüssig liest. Gewiss Gelehrsamkeit, wie es sich für eine Dissertation gehört, doch kommt sie
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A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Story of Henry Russell
One of the great popular musical performers of the nineteenth century’ is Andrew Lamb’s description of the subject of this
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Franz von Suppè: Werk und Leben
It was about time that someone finally wrote a modern biography of one of the world’s greatest operetta pioneers: Franz
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Im weißen Rössl. Zwischen Kunst und Kommerz
1980 brachten die Musik-Konzepte ein Heft heraus, das der Musik und dem sozio-kulturellen Umfeld von Jacques Offenbach gewidmet war.[1] Es
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Interview mit Joseph Olefirowicz zum Thema Operette und Musical
Sie haben lange und erfolgreich im kommerziellen Musicalbereich gearbeitet, u.a. bei der Stella in Bochum, Stuttgart und Berlin, wo Sie
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„Kitschig, campy und unvorstellbar schön…“
Wie konnte das geschehen? Wie konnte aus der aktuellen, witzigen, frivolen und vorwiegend austrojudäischen Kunstform Operette, die speziell in den
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DAS LAND DES LÄCHELNS Romantic Operette in 3 acts
Die gelbe Jacke, written to a libretto by the partner of Lehár’s earliest success, Der Rastelbinder (1902), and of his
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The Original Sounds of Operetta: Truesound Transfers
Die von der Firma Truesoundtranfers herausgegebene Serie mit Aufnahmen der Lustigen Witwe, des Graf von Luxemburg und der Zigeunerliebe in
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Holland en de operette: een reis in van de klinkende clichés
Waaraan denken de meeste toeristen het eerst als ze het woord “Holland” horen? Waarschijnlijk aan tulpen, molens, klompen, Delfts blauw,
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Virgilio RANZATO (b Venice, 7 May 1883; d Como, 20 April 1937)
One of the handful of Italian composers who made a significant contribution to a brief flowering of musical plays in
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L’ACQUA CHETA Operetta in 3 acts
One of the most successful Italian operettas of its period, L’acqua cheta was adapted by Novelli from his successful 1908
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THE RED WIDOW Musical play in 3 acts
Colonel Savage’s enormously successful novel His Official Wife was leaped upon by a horde of theatrical adapters, filmed by Hollywood
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LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT Opéra-comique in 3 acts
Along with Planquette’s Les Cloches de Corneville, La Fille de Madame Angot (Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels, 4 December 1872) was
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Charles Lecoq (b Paris, 3 June 1832; d Paris, 24 October 1918)
The most potent musician in the development of the French opérette tradition in the 1870s, and for a decade the
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ROSE MARIE Musical play in 2 acts
Although the Broadway musical theatre had established itself worldwide with its light-handed song-and-dance shows – Going Up, Irene, Mercenary Mary,
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LE PETIT FAUST Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts
Of Hervé’s three most successful full-scale opéras-bouffes, it was Le Petit Faust, the only one of the three to parody
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Sigmund Romberg (b Nagykanizsa, Hungary, 29 July 1887; d New York, 9 November 1951)
Romberg studied the violin in his youthful years in Hungary, but he was set at first towards an adult career
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The most successful composer of the English opéra-bouffe and -comique stage: Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b London, 13 May 1842; d London, 22 November 1900). Educated at the Chapel Royal, the Royal
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The most talented librettist and lyricist for the 19th-century English-language theatre: W. S. Gilbert
William Schwenk Gilbert (b London, 18 November 1836; d Harrow Weald, 29 May 1911). The most talented librettist and lyricist
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THE VAGABOND KING Musical play in 4 acts
One of the many variants on the Abu Hasan ‘king for a day’ tale, Justin McCarthy’s play If I Were
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THE GEISHA, a story of a tea house Japanese musical play in 2 acts
The most successful of the series of important musical plays produced by George Edwardes at Daly’s Theatre around the turn
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BARBE-BLEUE Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts
After their enormous success with La Belle Hélène at the Théâtre des Variétés, the Meilhac-Halévy-Offenbach team followed up with a
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CHILPÉRIC: Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts and 4 tableaux
One of the most successful of extravagantly humorous full-length opéras-bouffes written and composed by the playwright/composer Hervé, Chilpéric went even
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THE ARCADIANS Fantastic musical play in 3 acts
Perhaps the most complete of all the British Edwardian musical comedies, The Arcadians mixed the light romantic and the broadly
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Offenbach’s Universe
Leidenschaftliche Offenbachianer werden Laurent Fraisons klingende Offenbach-Anthologie bereits in der seltenen Vinyl-Edition besitzen. Für alle anderen macht das Label Forlane
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Offenbach und die Schauplätze seines Musiktheaters
Der Klassiker als Sittenverderber. Erstmals aus den Quellen aufgearbeitet: die deutsche Rezeptionsgeschichte Jacques Offenbachs im 19. Jahrhundert. Die deutschsprachige Aufführungsgeschichte Jacques Offenbachs
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“Kätz”-Premiere in der Neuköllner Oper
Von den 102 Bühnenwerken, die Jacques Offenbach in seiner dreißigjährigen Komponistenkarriere geschaffen hat, sind einem, wenns hoch kommt, eine Handvoll
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