This spring, stage director Felix Seiler and choreographer Danny Costello staged Paul Abraham’s Die Blume von Hawaii with students in
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Recently, conductor Dario Salvi performed Franz von Suppé’s one-act Die schöne Galathée (1865) in the UK, in English. It was
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British researchers are continuing their conference series Gaiety, Glitz and Glamour. For the next installment at the School of Music,
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There is a Facebook group out there called Adonises of the Silver Screen. It offers amazing photos of and anecdotes
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It’s that time of year again when theaters release their programs for next season. One of the most striking programs
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After a successful 2017 season, the team working with young Emmental director Simon Burkhalter is once again relying on last
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Why did it take so long, you might ask? And was it worth waiting all this time? In the case
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The Staatsoperette Dresden has a new home, you might recall. The operetta company in Saxony has moved from the outskirts
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The Geschwister Pfister – a German-Swiss-Croatian comedy trio – have written operetta history, many times over. Yes, they were the
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It’s a pretty grand claim to make: “With their multi-media stage show Operetta Made in Austria stage stars Ildiko Raimondi
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As a conductor and operetta researcher, I have been working, for the last month or so, on restoring the orchestral
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It’s always a special treat to see new – and interesting – people coming to musical material that some consider
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In a way, it’s what every operetta fan secretly dreams of: you go to a performance with new unknown singers,
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At the beginning of December, the winners of this year’s Bundeswettbewerb Gesang presented themselves at the Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin,
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The Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! is launching its fourth season with The Red Mill, Broadway’s longest running success by
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In 1916 two of the leading exponents of the Yiddish Theater of New York got together to work on one
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Last weekend, the Royal Musical Association devoted one of its study days to what has controversially been described as the
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You might recall that back in the 1990s a renewed interest in so called ‘degenerate’ operettas spread around the world.
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We recently reported on the new Emmerich Kálmán Research Centre that will open in Budapest. It’s an academic institution funded
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It was a dazzling party: Yvonne Kalman celebrated her 80th birthday last week-end in Budapest as a big gala event,
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This dashing young musical comedy guy, born 1990 in Germany’s Black Forrest region near Karlsruhe, just ventured far into “enemy
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In 2007, a music manager in the US started a blog called Barihunks, dedicated to hunky baritones. Over the years,
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The open air operetta festival in Neustrelitz – an hour north of Berlin by train – has Strauss’ Zigeunerbaron on
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The Swan Song Operetta was developed and performed over eight years. This summer it will flower into its unabridged self
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The luxurious little spa town Baden bei Wien – 45 minutes from the center of Vienna by tram – considers
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It’s always astonishing that American audiences never really fell for operettas with stories actually set in the USA. It seems
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Most operetta fans will remember Berlin-based tenor Endrik Wottrich because he sings the male lead in Kalman’s Die Herzogin von
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An interview with Jeff Clarke, artistic director of Opera della Luna, about the company’s planned new production of Johann Strauss’s
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Performing operetta in big opera houses is often not an easy task – because the intimacy is easily lost, and
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Berlin’s Komische Oper and its artistic director Barrie Kosky are always good for a surprise, most certainly when it comes
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The “All Irish” season of the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! continues with a concert of music by Victor Herbert
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Operetta star performer and writer Ivor Novello (1893-1951) will be featured as “Composer of the Week” for BBC Radio 3
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There will be a new memorial plaque on Maximilianstraße 56 next year: on February 22, the second anniversary of his
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Over 100 years after its world-premiere, Emmerich Kálmán’s The Csárdás Princess comes to London once more on 28 November 2016.
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In February 2017, theater historian Dr. Wolfgang Jansen is organizing a conference on the topic of “Popular musical theatre under
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It’s a special treat, that’s for sure: the Komische Oper Berlin is ending its Emmerich Kalman cycle of Christmas operettas
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