Jacques Offenbach 2019: Celebtrating His 200th Birthday
In June 2019 the world will celebrate the 200th birthday of Jacques Offenbach, “The 19th century’s most popular musical-theatre composer.”
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
read moreRalph Benatzky’s “Musikalisches Lustspiel” Bezauberndes Fräulein (1933) is a true delight. As anyone knows who has ever heard the wonderful
read moreIt is one man’s enthusiasm that made this possible: the hotel owner Jürgen Haase from Neustrelitz – a picturesque town
read moreThe summer season for operetta has started, and various festivals are about to open. Coming up in Baden, near Vienna,
read moreMost people outside of Germany will probably know Paul Lincke’s 1899 hit show Frau Luna because of the rousing march
read moreIsn’t it strange that the city of Berlin is so popular, with young (and not so young) hormone-driven tourists from
read moreMost people will probably ask: what does West Side Story have to do with operetta? Isn’t it anything but an
read moreThere are those who consider Sondheim’s A Little Night Music the greatest of all modern operettas. And in a way,
read moreWe could not agree more with this statement of Red Blonde Productions and West Sussex Opera: “What Cabaret was to
read moreEvery country, and every generation for that matter, has its “no. 1” tenor. In Germany, back in the 1920s and
read moreDoes the world really need a new operetta written today, in our post-operetta times? If the answer is something as
read moreOn Monday, 9 May, Deutschlandradio Kultur will broadcast a 50-minute feature about operetta on socialist countries such as the DDR
read moreFans of 1920′s jazz operettas don’t usually consider Kálmán’s Gräfin Mariza a modern syncopated show. Instead, they put this international
read moreVictor Herbert’s wildly popular 1897 comic operetta, The Serenade, forever changed the landscape of musical theater in America and abroad!
read moreYou will recall that the Tipi-Zelt-am-Kanzleramt in Berlin is preparing a new fully commercial production of Paul Linckes operetta Frau
read moreOne does not need much prompting to travel to Cottbus: the small town south-east of Berlin has one of the
read moreWhat the Opera House Zurich and the Komische Oper Berlin have in common are their architects: both were built by
read moreOff to new frontiers: that has always been a guiding principle for operetta. In this case, Hungarian operetta, or more
read moreNow it’s official: the Komische Oper Berlin has announced that next season the world will have a close encounter of
read moreLeon Jessel’s 1917 operetta Das Schwarzwaldmädel was one of the great WW1 hits coming from Berlin, because it transported war-weary
read moreIt seems almost only yesterday that Charles Kalman died, and had his memorable musical funeral in Munich. Now, his wife
read moreFor many people in the classical music world, the name of Nikolaus Harnoncourt is almost sacred. The conductor who died
read moreThis season, the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! is focusing on “humor” and celebrating that aspect in the works on
read moreThere are news, and there are NEWS. This certainly qualifies for the latter category, in capital letters: Berlin’s private theater
read moreAstrologically speaking, we’re still living under an Aquarian moon. And this week, we are celebrating the birthdays of two of
read moreIf poster images – or mood photos attached to an official press release – are any indication of what’s to
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