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
read moreThe good news is: Daniela Ziegler finally gets to perform Offenbach and star in an operetta. At the Ernst Deutsch
read moreIf resources enough could be gathered together for an annual festival of Offenbach and maybe his time, where would it
read moreOffenbach was introduced to the Russian stage when a French company played La belle Hélène at the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre
read moreIn the summer of 2019 researchers from all around the world gathered for a double conference in Cologne and Paris,
read moreThe Jacques Offenbach Society Newsletter has published in its 101st issue (September 2022) a letter from Jacobo Kaufmann entitled “Copyists
read moreThe Laboratory of Research and Documentation of Modern Greek Theatre of the Department of Theatre Studies of National and Kapodistrian
read moreWhen you have spent more than 20 years researching and writing a book, when you have lived and breathed the
read moreLa Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein was, arguably, Offenbach’s first truly transglobal success. It benefitted from opening during the Exposition universelle
read moreI came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the
read moreThree years and eight major shows after the splenditious production of Le Roi Carotte, Offenbach returned to the world of
read moreHere’s great news: a new book on Offenbach is out! It is entitled Offenbach, Composer of Zarzuelas and has been
read moreIn the latest newsletter of the Jacques Offenbach Society (No. 98), there is a reprint of the full Meilhac &
read moreThe most successful stage musical work of Reynaldo Hahn, Ciboulette was written to a text by two of the most
read moreIn the midst of Meilhac, Halévy and Offenbach’s dazzling series of successes with the earliest of their famous opéras-bouffes –
read moreHervé’s second attempt, after Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1866), to produce a full-length burlesque opérette to challenge the
read moreHervé’s 1867 opéra bouffe L’œil crevé (literally “The pierced eye” or “It hit me right in the eye”) was first
read moreBorn in Caracas, Venezuela, on 9 August, 1874, Reynaldo Hahn was the elegant, soigné composer whose work for the French
read moreFrom 14 October onwards the Fundación Juan March is presenting a special program dedicated to Jacques Offenbach. The series of
read moreAfter an early career spent performing in cafés and suburban music halls, Maurice Chevalier (born in Ménilmontant on 12 September,
read moreProbably the best of the later, post Raymond Vincy, musical shows written by the already fading Francis Lopez, Viva Napoli
read moreAs much as one show can, La Belle de Cadix marked the same kind of a turning in the musical
read moreLe Chanteur de Mexico followed behind La Belle de Cadix and Andalousie in the continuing series of Raymond Vincy/Francis Lopez
read moreKarl Kraus und Felix Salten haben 1909 bzw. 1906 Diagnosen zur Situation des musikalischen Unterhaltungstheaters und seiner Rezeption in Wien
read moreEmmerich Kálmáns Graf Tassilo (Gräfin Mariza, Buch Julius Brammer / Alfred Grünwald) verkörpert einen Typus, den das Publikum der Uraufführung
read moreThe folk who created the musical works of Meilhac, Halévy, Crémieux, Hervé and their colleagues, and of the parallel composers,
read moreNo one can really claim that there is not an abundance of exciting Offenbach literature that has been published since
read moreThe one-act l‘île de Tulipatan, written by Jacques Offenbach with his librettists Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru in 1868 for
read moreJacques Offenbach could not have asked for a better way to curry favour for theatre priveleges than by publishing a
read moreThe Queen of Offenbach’s Bouffes? Oh, yes, I hear the unenlightened nod. ‘Hortense Schneider. We’ve all heard of her’. I:
read moreMonsieur Marius (Claude Marius Duplany, b Paris, 18 February 1850) was a ‘Frenchman, play producer, actor, raconteur, and optimist’ (they
read moreÉdouard Théodore Nicole, better known as Léonce (b Paris, 12 January 1820) was a slim, bespectacled (off-stage) low comedian with
read moreIn 1847 the young comedian known as Désiré asked Hervé for a two-handed musical sketch to play at his benefit.
read moreOriginally produced at Baden-Baden during the 1869 summer season, with the young Mdlle Périer in its principal travesty rôle, La
read moreSometimes you read an operetta essay that deeply disturbs you – not because it is badly written or full of
read moreIn his 2 volume biography Emily Soldene: In Search of a Singer Kurt Gänzl chronicles the initial success of opéra
read moreIn 1980, the classical music world marked the 100th anniversary of Jacques Offenbach’s death. And for this greatest of ‘life
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