Gilbert & Sullivan At Wilton’s Music Hall: An “HMS Pinafore” Performance To Remember
Wilton’s Music Hall is “the most important surviving early music hall to be seen anywhere” (says the Theatres Trust) and
read moreWilton’s Music Hall is “the most important surviving early music hall to be seen anywhere” (says the Theatres Trust) and
read moreFans of musical theater and operetta will not find a richer, more concentrated banquet of their favorite entertainment than that
read moreShowboats gave the theatre-starved people along the Mississippi from the 1880s into the 1920s what they most wanted: melodrama and
read moreWith the BBC Proms totally ignoring Offenbach’s bicentenary, it has been left to London’s music colleges, small scale opera companies
read moreWhen I was about eight years old I have vivid memories of my mother doing the housework, continually singing “Oh,
read moreImagine sitting under the stars in a beautiful German Schlossgarten, totally relaxed, watching a hugely enjoyable operetta by Emmerich Kálmán
read moreWould Brother Jacob have been amused? In any case, the Parisian Opéra-Comique (with a hyphen, meaning the actual opera house,
read moreThe 1922 Madame Pompadour is not only one of Leo Fall’s last stage works (he died in 1925), it is
read moreWith all the attention being given to Offenbach, it is easy to forget that 2019 is also the bicentenary of
read moreGerman regional theatres excel in searching out rarely performed stage works and often breathing new life into them. Le Roi
read moreWith an Offenbach conference coming up in June in Cologne that includes a section dedicated to “Discourses and Identities” and
read moreThe World Heritage city of Hildesheim, 20 miles south-east of Hannover, possesses a charming, intimate, 600-seater theatre staging opera, musicals
read moreIn November 2018 I reviewed a concert performance of Howard Goodall’s Girlfriends, recommending his previous musical The Hired Man which
read moreBenatzky’s 1930 hit Meine Schwester und ich in a new Wien Volksoper production is totally delightful and enchantingly charming. More
read moreThis admirable young company finished its fifth season with Victor Herbert’s hit, Sweethearts, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre
read moreNot seen in London since its original production at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1968, when it starred Keith Michell as
read moreGertrude Lawrence’s 1941 megahit, Lady in the Dark, groundbreaking in its day for its then novel use of psychoanalysis in
read moreIs the ‘Musical Arabian Night’ in two acts by George Forrest and Robert Wright an operetta, with recycled music from
read moreIn his new book Der Klang von Paris – “The Sound(s) of Paris” – Volker Hagedorn embarkes on “a trip
read moreAustrian-Jewish composer Joseph Beer’s operetta Polnische Hochzeit (‘Polish Wedding’) received its premiere in Zurich in 1937: it was quickly translated
read more“Shake your banana!” At the table in front of me, six women screamed this internally even when Pasquale Aleardi was
read moreFirst, I learned that Michael and Nan Miller had bequeathed their extraordinary Operetta Archive to the University of California at
read moreNew York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’s inspired pairing of two Victorian one-act comic operas – Ages Ago and Mr. Jericho
read moreVHRP Live’s love-themed concert may have been the company’s best yet, not forgetting such earlier gems as Son of Dublin
read moreSo viel vorweg: Dass in Hildesheim Offenbachs einstiger Sensationserfolg Die Prinzessin von Trapezunt (1869) nach Jahrzehnten des Vergessens wieder auf
read moreIt’s a brief moment, but it is pure magic. And it elevates an already magical evening to an outstanding event
read moreHe was six years younger than Jacques Offenbach and survived him by eleven years. And just like Offenbach, he can
read moreAfter having had great success in Berlin with three operettas on a very grand scale – Viktoria und ihr Husar
read moreWriting an operetta in the 1950s for Broadway was certainly – a bit eccentric! The grand operetta hits had all
read moreAfter the success of The Hired Man (being revived at Hornchurch in the Spring of 2019), Howard Goodall turned his
read moreFour years after Light Opera of New York exhumed Victor Herbert’s last operetta Orange Blossoms (more accurately, a “comedy with
read moreIn the case of an artist of the caliber of Katharine Mehrling it’s obviously worth sticking around until the very
read moreIt’s a weird and wonderful experience to sit in the Tipi-am-Kanzleramt tent, waiting for a performance of Kander & Ebb’s
read moreEnterprising Ohio Light Opera, ever devoted to ‘authentic’ productions from the world of musical comedy and operetta, seems to go
read moreThis year the International G & S Festival, as well as the National G & S Company are celebrating their
read moreThis summer the historic Frank Matcham designed Buxton Opera House, built in 1903 and seating 902, was host to the
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