Operetta Research Center » Offenbach & Co. http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Roger’s “Joséphine Vendue Par Ses Soeurs” Returns to Paris http://operetta-research-center.org/victor-rogers-opera-bouffe-josephine-vendue-par-ses-soeurs/ http://operetta-research-center.org/victor-rogers-opera-bouffe-josephine-vendue-par-ses-soeurs/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:53:47 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25247 In January 2025 the Compagnie Fortunio is bringing the opéra-bouffe Joséphine Vendue Par Ses Soeurs back to Paris, for a

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/victor-rogers-opera-bouffe-josephine-vendue-par-ses-soeurs/feed/ 0 “Social Evil”: The Girards and Offenbach’s “Princess of Trebizonde” in Melbourne http://operetta-research-center.org/girards-offenbachs-princess-trebizonde-melbourne-court-case-social-evil/ http://operetta-research-center.org/girards-offenbachs-princess-trebizonde-melbourne-court-case-social-evil/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:42:46 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24975 Recently, Offenbach researchers have started looking a little beyond the usual boundaries of “established” source material, one of them is

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/girards-offenbachs-princess-trebizonde-melbourne-court-case-social-evil/feed/ 1 Offenbach’s “La Jolie Parfumeuse” in Philadelphia 1876 http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-la-jolie-parfumeuse-philadelphia-1876/ http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-la-jolie-parfumeuse-philadelphia-1876/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:15:04 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24902 In the summer of 1876 Jacques Offenbach visited Philadelphia. At “The Offenbach Garden,” located on the southeast corner of Broad

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-la-jolie-parfumeuse-philadelphia-1876/feed/ 0 The Biography of Valtesse de la Bigne, Mistress of Paris http://operetta-research-center.org/biography-valtesse-de-la-bigne-mistress-of-paris-jacques-offenbach-affair/ http://operetta-research-center.org/biography-valtesse-de-la-bigne-mistress-of-paris-jacques-offenbach-affair/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:16:13 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24724 We’ve all read stories about the big players: Jacques Offenbach, Ludovic Halevy, Henri Meilhac, and certainly Napoleon III. But you

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/biography-valtesse-de-la-bigne-mistress-of-paris-jacques-offenbach-affair/feed/ 2 Daniela Ziegler as the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein – and Other Offenbach Treats http://operetta-research-center.org/daniel-ziegler-grossherzogin-gerolstein-offenbach/ http://operetta-research-center.org/daniel-ziegler-grossherzogin-gerolstein-offenbach/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:39:12 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24163 The good news is: Daniela Ziegler finally gets to perform Offenbach and star in an operetta. At the Ernst Deutsch

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/daniel-ziegler-grossherzogin-gerolstein-offenbach/feed/ 1 Where To Put an Offenbach Festival? Here Are Some Suggestions http://operetta-research-center.org/put-offenbach-festival/ http://operetta-research-center.org/put-offenbach-festival/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:09:09 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24110 If resources enough could be gathered together for an annual festival of Offenbach and maybe his time, where would it

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/put-offenbach-festival/feed/ 0 Offenbach and the Theatre Bouffe in Saint Petersburg, 1870-1878 http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-theatre-bouffe-saint-petersburg-1870-1878/ http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-theatre-bouffe-saint-petersburg-1870-1878/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:49:34 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24039 Offenbach was introduced to the Russian stage when a French company played La belle Hélène at the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-theatre-bouffe-saint-petersburg-1870-1878/feed/ 1 “Offenbach, Musicien Européen” Or, Put Away the Sellotape http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-musician-europeen-review-kurt-ganzl-put-away-sellotape/ http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-musician-europeen-review-kurt-ganzl-put-away-sellotape/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:21:05 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24006 In the summer of 2019 researchers from all around the world gathered for a double conference in Cologne and Paris,

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-musician-europeen-review-kurt-ganzl-put-away-sellotape/feed/ 1 The False Pirate; or, The Slave of Truth http://operetta-research-center.org/jacobo-kaufmann-offenbach-spain-false-pirate-slave-truth/ http://operetta-research-center.org/jacobo-kaufmann-offenbach-spain-false-pirate-slave-truth/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:06:09 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23847 The Jacques Offenbach Society Newsletter has published in its 101st issue (September 2022) a letter from Jacobo Kaufmann entitled “Copyists

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/jacobo-kaufmann-offenbach-spain-false-pirate-slave-truth/feed/ 0 The Revue in Mediterranean Countries – A Conference in Athens http://operetta-research-center.org/les-revues-sur-les-scenes-du-bassin-mediterraneen/ http://operetta-research-center.org/les-revues-sur-les-scenes-du-bassin-mediterraneen/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:00:51 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23793 The Laboratory of Research and Documentation of Modern Greek Theatre of the Department of Theatre Studies of National and Kapodistrian

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/les-revues-sur-les-scenes-du-bassin-mediterraneen/feed/ 0 Revisiting the Emily Soldene Biography. Or: the Postscripta of Publication http://operetta-research-center.org/revisiting-emily-soldene-biography-postscripta-publication/ http://operetta-research-center.org/revisiting-emily-soldene-biography-postscripta-publication/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2022 08:45:43 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23727 When you have spent more than 20 years researching and writing a book, when you have lived and breathed the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/revisiting-emily-soldene-biography-postscripta-publication/feed/ 0 “The Grand Duke of Gerolstein”: A Milanese Byblow of the Grand Duchess http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/ http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:43:44 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23697 La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein was, arguably, Offenbach’s first truly transglobal success. It benefitted from opening during the Exposition universelle

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