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Giorgio Madia: “Entertainment, that’s an insult!”

kevin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:26:40 +0000

Stage director and choreographer Giorgio Madia discusses operetta then and now, with a special focus on the Mörbisch festival years

kevin — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 21:11:12 +0000

At the beginning of the 20th century, a Singspiel, János vitéz, premiered at the Király Theatre and became a milestone

kevin — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:35:18 +0000

In the new edition of the book Glitter and be Gay: Reloaded Spanish musicologist Enrique Mejías García writes about the

kevin — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:46:10 +0000

Following the notable success of Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss had fared less well with Cagliostro in Wien and Prinz Methusalem

kevin — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:15:30 +0000

József Hűvös Botfai (1848-1914), originally from Nagykanizsa, moved to Budapest, where he became a respected lawyer, an adviser to the

kevin — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:30:08 +0000

There are artists – quite a few – whose names disappear from public consciousness in the decades following their death

kevin — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:53:47 +0000

In January 2025 the Compagnie Fortunio is bringing the opéra-bouffe Joséphine Vendue Par Ses Soeurs back to Paris, for a

kevin — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:42:46 +0000

Recently, Offenbach researchers have started looking a little beyond the usual boundaries of “established” source material, one of them is

kevin — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:16:57 +0000

Carl Millöcker was one of the trio of Viennese composers who were responsible for the bulk of the outstanding Operetten

kevin — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:49:10 +0000

Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer based their libretto on Les Deux Anglais by P-F Merville, Carl Millöcker wrote the music. Their show, Der

kevin — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:15:04 +0000

In the summer of 1876 Jacques Offenbach visited Philadelphia. At “The Offenbach Garden,” located on the southeast corner of Broad

kevin — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:16:13 +0000

We’ve all read stories about the big players: Jacques Offenbach, Ludovic Halevy, Henri Meilhac, and certainly Napoleon III. But you