Operetta Research Center » In Print 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 Helmut G. Asper’s “Music in the Air: The German Musical Film Comedy in Exile” http://operetta-research-center.org/helmut-g-asper-music-air-die-deutsche-musikfilm-komodie-im-exil/ http://operetta-research-center.org/helmut-g-asper-music-air-die-deutsche-musikfilm-komodie-im-exil/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:02:17 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25828 In the introduction to his new book “Music in the Air”. The German Musical Film Comedy in Exile 1933–1950, Helmut

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/helmut-g-asper-music-air-die-deutsche-musikfilm-komodie-im-exil/feed/ 0 „Eine Bühne wie keine andere“: Interview mit Wolfgang Jansen zur Geschichte des Friedrichstadt-Palast http://operetta-research-center.org/eine-buhne-wie-keine-andere-interview-mit-wolfgang-jansen-zur-geschichte-des-friedrichstadt-palast/ http://operetta-research-center.org/eine-buhne-wie-keine-andere-interview-mit-wolfgang-jansen-zur-geschichte-des-friedrichstadt-palast/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:20:37 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25563 Der Theaterhistoriker Wolfgang Jansen widmet sich in seinem neuen Buch der Geschichte des Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, in der Zeit 1945

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/eine-buhne-wie-keine-andere-interview-mit-wolfgang-jansen-zur-geschichte-des-friedrichstadt-palast/feed/ 0 The Story of Julian Eltinge: America’s Greatest Female Impersonator http://operetta-research-center.org/story-julian-eltinge-americas-greatest-female-impersonator/ http://operetta-research-center.org/story-julian-eltinge-americas-greatest-female-impersonator/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:01:47 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25297 It’s almost a quarter of a century ago that Laurence Senelick published his book The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/story-julian-eltinge-americas-greatest-female-impersonator/feed/ 0 “Disrupted by the Morality Police”: A New Book on Carl Millöcker http://operetta-research-center.org/unfortunately-disrupted-morality-police-new-book-carl-millocker-life-works-martin-trageser/ http://operetta-research-center.org/unfortunately-disrupted-morality-police-new-book-carl-millocker-life-works-martin-trageser/#comments Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:00:50 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25172 Martin Trageser has published a 150 page book on Carl Millöcker (1842-1899). We spoke with him about this project and

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/unfortunately-disrupted-morality-police-new-book-carl-millocker-life-works-martin-trageser/feed/ 1 Routlegde’s “Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta” http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/ http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:35:48 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25145 Back in the year 2019, the University of Leeds hosted an conference put together by Derek B. Scott and Anastasia

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/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 It’s Finally Here: Karin Meesmann’s Biography of Paul Ábrahám http://operetta-research-center.org/karin-meesmann-biography-paul-abraham-hollitzer/ http://operetta-research-center.org/karin-meesmann-biography-paul-abraham-hollitzer/#comments Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:13:12 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24632 Anyone interested in Paul Ábrahám will have known – or will have heard – that Karin Meesmann has been working

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/karin-meesmann-biography-paul-abraham-hollitzer/feed/ 0 Wiener Operette, Moderne und kulturelle Viefalt: Moritz Csákys Essay in neuer Auflage http://operetta-research-center.org/wiener-operette-moderne-und-kulturelle-viefalt-moritz-csakys-essay-neuer-auflage/ http://operetta-research-center.org/wiener-operette-moderne-und-kulturelle-viefalt-moritz-csakys-essay-neuer-auflage/#comments Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:39:58 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24585 1996 erschien Moritz Csákys „kulturhistorischer Essay“ Ideologie der Operette und Wiener Moderne (Wien – Köln – Weimar: Böhlau). 2021 kam

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/wiener-operette-moderne-und-kulturelle-viefalt-moritz-csakys-essay-neuer-auflage/feed/ 0 The History of the Imperial Summer Theater in Bad Ischl http://operetta-research-center.org/teresa-hrdlicka-das-kaiserliche-sommertheater-in-bad-ischl-operette-und-oper-unter-kaiser-franz-joseph-i/ http://operetta-research-center.org/teresa-hrdlicka-das-kaiserliche-sommertheater-in-bad-ischl-operette-und-oper-unter-kaiser-franz-joseph-i/#comments Thu, 25 May 2023 17:04:15 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24544 Teresa Hrdlicka has just published a 184-page book entitled Das kaiserliche Sommertheater in Bad Ischl: Operette und Oper unter Kaiser

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/teresa-hrdlicka-das-kaiserliche-sommertheater-in-bad-ischl-operette-und-oper-unter-kaiser-franz-joseph-i/feed/ 2 Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture: An Interview with Laurence Senelick http://operetta-research-center.org/jacques-offenbach-making-modern-culture-interview-prof-laurence-senelick/ http://operetta-research-center.org/jacques-offenbach-making-modern-culture-interview-prof-laurence-senelick/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:00:38 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=14602 At long last someone has written a brand new Offenbach book – in English. And what’s even better, it’s a

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/jacques-offenbach-making-modern-culture-interview-prof-laurence-senelick/feed/ 3 Berlin’s “Theater des Volkes”: The Dark Side of Germany’s Entertainment Industry http://operetta-research-center.org/theater-des-volkes-berlin-history-new-book-sabine-schneller-guido-herrmann/ http://operetta-research-center.org/theater-des-volkes-berlin-history-new-book-sabine-schneller-guido-herrmann/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:56:58 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24370 The history of Berliner Großes Schauspielhaus – birthplace of the great 1920s Eric Charell revues and especially of Im weißen

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/theater-des-volkes-berlin-history-new-book-sabine-schneller-guido-herrmann/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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