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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„Vienna Is Alarmed By Inroads of Jazz“
Kálmán’s ‘Duchess of Chicago’ Starts Controversy Over the Future of the Operetta./ American Influence Seen./ Composer Turns Attention to Efforts
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Kálmán’s “Die Herzogin von Chicago”
Der Lenz ist da.Nicht der von Hildach. Den gibt es das ganze Jahr. Im Theater an der Wien ist das
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Lehár’s “Der Mann mit den drei Frauen”
Ich höre; daß sich im Theater an der Wien gegenwärtig eine Affenschande von Julius Bauer mit Musik von Lehar, unter
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