Fly Me To The Moon: Kurt Kurt Gänzl reviews the new “Le Voyage dans la lune”
A new recording from Bru Zane? After their tremendous job with La Fille de Madame Angot, I am all agog.
read moreA new recording from Bru Zane? After their tremendous job with La Fille de Madame Angot, I am all agog.
read moreThis CD entitled Höchste Eisenbahn by actor Ben Zimmermann and pianist Mark McNeill is called a „Doku Revue der Goldenen
read moreI have just been on a very, very happy trip down memory boulevard. For a couple of years of my
read moreAt first glance, Hanns Eisler doesn’t have much to do with operetta. But if you look closer, the very first
read moreOperette hat Konjunktur. In den letzten Jahren sind (meist beim Label cpo) rund zwei Dutzend Aufnahmen auf CD erschienen, meist
read moreI knew that I should enjoy this 1927 French operetta directly after I read Richard Traubner’s dismissal of Marcel Lattès
read moreIt’s only a few days now, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will be at their exercise again. Their 1 January
read moreFinding the best of all possible Candide recordings is hard. Because Leonard Bernstein’s eclectic work from 1956 – his only
read moreAnother Porgy and Bess recording? Pentanone Classics has released highlights conducted by Marin Alsop, taken from a live concert in
read moreCharles Dibdin is often thought of, assuming he is thought of at all, as one of the links between the
read moreOnce upon a time, not so very long ago, a young lady radio or TV ‘interviewer’ asked me: what was
read moreDid it really take until 2021 for a complete Countess Mariza recording to come out? Of course, there have been
read moreThe label Naxos is continuing its Johann Strauss series with a new recording of late operetta Waldmeister, which originally premiered
read moreThe sky is blue, the sun is shining, the waves are tinkling on the shore a hundred metres from me
read morePaul Abrahám’s flavorsome jazz operetta, which premiered to great acclaim in 1932 Berlin at Großes Schauspielhaus, only to have its
read moreAfter 1945, Decca and American Columbia developed the 33 rpm LP vinyl record to replace the 78 rpm shellac disc.
read moreHarbinger Records is planning a re-issue – for the first time on CD – of the Smithsonian Institution’s 1981 recording
read moreIn 1892 Johann Strauss – the world-famous dance music composer and author of numerous operetta classics – managed to premiere
read moreSoprano Ethel Merhaut is part of the “young musical scene of Vienna” and likes to “use lots of charme and
read moreIt’s astonishing that Sony Masterworks is releasing an album of operetta songs – in jazz arrangements! Presented by the young
read moreThe repertoire Tyrolean tenor Martin Mitterrutzner presents on his new album Heut’ ist der schönste Tag was made popular in
read moreVenezuelan born Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) lived in Paris for most of his life, composed his first successful song (“If My
read moreWhen I visited Tallinn in 2016 and saw that they were playing Ball im Savoy at the Estonian National Opera,
read moreThere’s something supremely uplifting about starting the new year with Franz von Suppé’s rousing Fatinitza march as played by the
read moreAh yes, another Fledermaus recording. As if there aren’t enough already, right? Well, actually, this one from the NDR Radiophilharmonie
read moreIn 2013 and 2016 the University of British Columbia performed two of Emmerich Kálmán’s early symphonic poems, Saturnalia and Endre
read moreAnd now, I would like to talk to you about George London. Yes, I am aware that he didn’t sing
read moreConductor Georges Prêtre is generally considered one of the best interpreters of French music, and the list of famous recordings
read moreWomen opera and operetta composers are often even more in the shadows than women composers in general, and if it
read moreThis new recording starts overwhelmingly: with gongs, whole tone scales, rhythmic oriental rattling, bouncing horn passages à la Richard Strauss.
read moreAt the beginning of August 2020 Helga Benatzky died at the blessed age of 96: she had been in charge
read moreWhat grabbed my immediate attention with this new Eine Nacht in Venedig on cpo are the names on the cover:
read moreThe aspect that initially drew my attention to this brand new re-release of The Merry Widow in “hi-fidelity stereo” was
read moreMy first ‘live’ encounter with Oscar Straus was attending a wonderfully inspired production of his first operetta Die lustigen Nibelungen
read moreBecause of the required commitment of time, money, and dedication, it is a safe bet, with the exception of the
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