Victor Herbert’s “The Red Mill” Returns To New York City
The Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! is launching its fourth season with The Red Mill, Broadway’s longest running success by
read moreThe Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! is launching its fourth season with The Red Mill, Broadway’s longest running success by
read moreIn 1916 two of the leading exponents of the Yiddish Theater of New York got together to work on one
read moreLast weekend, the Royal Musical Association devoted one of its study days to what has controversially been described as the
read moreYou might recall that back in the 1990s a renewed interest in so called ‘degenerate’ operettas spread around the world.
read moreWe recently reported on the new Emmerich Kálmán Research Centre that will open in Budapest. It’s an academic institution funded
read moreIt was a dazzling party: Yvonne Kalman celebrated her 80th birthday last week-end in Budapest as a big gala event,
read moreThis dashing young musical comedy guy, born 1990 in Germany’s Black Forrest region near Karlsruhe, just ventured far into “enemy
read moreIn 2007, a music manager in the US started a blog called Barihunks, dedicated to hunky baritones. Over the years,
read moreThe open air operetta festival in Neustrelitz – an hour north of Berlin by train – has Strauss’ Zigeunerbaron on
read moreThe Swan Song Operetta was developed and performed over eight years. This summer it will flower into its unabridged self
read moreThe luxurious little spa town Baden bei Wien – 45 minutes from the center of Vienna by tram – considers
read moreIt’s always astonishing that American audiences never really fell for operettas with stories actually set in the USA. It seems
read moreMost operetta fans will remember Berlin-based tenor Endrik Wottrich because he sings the male lead in Kalman’s Die Herzogin von
read moreAn interview with Jeff Clarke, artistic director of Opera della Luna, about the company’s planned new production of Johann Strauss’s
read morePerforming operetta in big opera houses is often not an easy task – because the intimacy is easily lost, and
read moreBerlin’s Komische Oper and its artistic director Barrie Kosky are always good for a surprise, most certainly when it comes
read moreThe “All Irish” season of the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! continues with a concert of music by Victor Herbert
read moreOperetta star performer and writer Ivor Novello (1893-1951) will be featured as “Composer of the Week” for BBC Radio 3
read moreThere will be a new memorial plaque on Maximilianstraße 56 next year: on February 22, the second anniversary of his
read moreOver 100 years after its world-premiere, Emmerich Kálmán’s The Csárdás Princess comes to London once more on 28 November 2016.
read moreIn February 2017, theater historian Dr. Wolfgang Jansen is organizing a conference on the topic of “Popular musical theatre under
read moreIt’s a special treat, that’s for sure: the Komische Oper Berlin is ending its Emmerich Kalman cycle of Christmas operettas
read more“A themed season? Who does themed seasons anymore?” muses Alyce Mott, Artistic Director of the NYC-based Victor Herbert Renaissance Project
read moreAndrás Szentpéteri is the head of Pentaton Concert and Artist Management, the company in charge of organising the international tours
read moreIn a way you could see it coming: the Seefestpiele Mörbisch tried breaking away from the stuffy (but much beloved)
read moreIn June 2019 the world will celebrate the 200th birthday of Jacques Offenbach, “The 19th century’s most popular musical-theatre composer.”
read moreRavenna in Northern Italy is famous for many things: it was the capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402
read moreFor their 2016/17 season, the Budapest Operetta Theater (BOT) has some surprises in store. They might have opened the season
read moreThe Theater Vorpommern / Haus Stralsund will open its new season with Künneke’s Der Vetter aus Dingsda on October 8.
read moreTo call this a strange mix of emotions would be an understatement. Yesterday, we here at the Operetta Research Center
read moreYou might truly hold your breath for a second: the famous show The Black Crook is being revived in New
read moreBecause of popular demand – and there obviously is much demand in New York City right now – the production
read moreThe statistics are out for the number of musical theater performances in Germany during the 2014/15 season. They were published
read moreYes, someone finally had the great idea to bring back the 1932 smash-hit Sissy, written by Ernst and Hubert Marischka,
read moreNot too long ago, Berlin’s operetta pioneer Barrie Kosky stated in the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, that he considers the performers of
read moreOperetta in East-Germany has turned into a topic I have become more and more fascinated with. Maybe because my first
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