1923 Yiddish Operetta Astounds New York City Audience
An unlikely current hit, the 1923 Yiddish musical Di goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) by Joseph Rumshinsky, emerged after years
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The “Circus Princess” Triumphs in Vienna: Kalman’s New Musical Piece the Operetta Sensation of Europe
Will he “come back”? Will Emmerich Kalman succeed in duplicating the tremendous success of his Countess Maritza, which has been
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“The Golden Bride” At The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
This meticulous reconstruction of composer Joseph Rumshinsky’s 1923 operetta Di Goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) may well be the most
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Period Genre Spoof: “Dames At Sea” Returns To New York Triumphantly
Director/choreographer Randy Skinner’s production of the 1968 Off-Broadway charmer – a delicious take-off on those Busby Berkeley musicals of the
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Meet Rothschilds & Sons: The Bock/Harnick Show Returns Rewritten
Though Broadway’s The Rothschilds in 1970 was far from a megahit on the scale of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s
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“The Pirates of Penzance” Conquer New York, Again!
Gilbert & Sullivan’s ever popular comic opera was the second foray into the fabled duo’s work from the Collegiate Chorale
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Selling Johann Strauss With A “Fake” Reconstruction?
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Johann Strauss’s final work for the stage, the ballet Aschenbrödel. Most of
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“The Riviera Girl”: Kálmán on Broadway 1917
Emmerich Kálmán’s Csardasfürstin opened on Broadway, at the New Amsterdam Theater, on 24 September 1917 under the new American title
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“Sarg’ Niemals Nie” At Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft
Da hat sich die Berliner Bar jeder Vernunft tatsächlich drei neue Künstler ins Spiegelzelt geholt, die attraktiv und atemberaubend talentiert
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Desirée Nick: “Ich bin die größte Diva von allen!”
Die singende Entertainerin und TV-Phänomen Desirée Nick ist derzeit in der Sat1-Show Promi Big Brother zu bestaunen (und so ziemlich
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“Hamilton”: America’s Founding Fathers Set To Hip-Hop
Quadruple threat librettist-composer-lyricist-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) has conceived an utterly original, ambitious, irresistible new musical inspired by Ron
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“Amazing Grace”: A Slave Trader Musical
This is a reasonably compelling, resourcefully staged, and certainly richly designed story of slave trader John Newton and how he
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The 2015 Ohio Light Opera Season. Or: Operetta Delights in Wooster
Though an unfortunate scheduling conflict prevented my attending this delightful company’s second annual symposium as I did last year, I
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The (Fun) Little Faust
Mephisto warned us right at the beginning of tonight’s performance that we wouldn’t leave weeping over Marguerite’s fate. I sincerely
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Demonstration der Homosexuellen: Skandalscenen in der Komischen Oper!
This in an article from the magazine Das Freundschaftsblatt, 8 July, 1927, reporting on a ground breaking incident in the
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Heiteres Musiktheater schwelgt in Nostalgie: “In Frisco ist der Teufel los”
In Frisco ist der Teufel los war einer der größten Erfolge des „musikalischen Unterhaltungstheaters“ der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik – „Heiteres
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Patrick Lindner Sings Operetta, Or: A Deliciously Gay “Im Weissen Rössl”
You didn’t seriously think we’d leave this one out, did you? The Rüdersdorfer Sommeroperette is presenting the White Horse Inn
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Puccini’s Operetta “La Rondine” At The Deutsche Oper Berlin
When I was very young, I had a book called something like The Operas of Puccini. I can’t remember –
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Zwischen den Zeilen und Zeiten: Das Ur-Publikum und der Reiz der Ur-Operette
Vielleicht ist es Ihnen ja auch schon mal so gegangen: Bei der Lektüre von Texten zur Ur-Operette – also der
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A New Tap-Dancing Musical About James Cagney
An unlikely subject for a musical perhaps – though, of course, he starred in several – Hollywood tough guy James
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Something Rotten! New Shakespeare-Spectacle On Broadway
This very clever new musical is a rib-tickling winner across the board, a hilarious riff on Shakespeare and his times.
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Puzzlingly Updated: Herbert’s “The Only Girl” Revived In New York
Light Opera of New York (LOONY) seems to go from strength to strength with each new season, and their latest
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Forget Dames At Sea: Here Come Twelve Gay Sailors
My first reaction was: ‘Not another fairy tale musical!’ But after Monday night’s concert at The Ballery in Berlin, where
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“Doctor Zhivago”: Laughably Derivative?
Not only does this overblown musical of Boris Pasternak’s classic novel not measure up to the sweep and majesty of
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“Shall We Dance?” Kelli O’Hara As Anna Leonowens
This opulent revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s enduring 1951 classic certainly has much to commend it. For starters, theatergoers have
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Kander & Ebb: “The Visit” Starring Chita Rivera
Broadway at last! The John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, originally conceived as a vehicle for Angela Lansbury, who withdrew
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“An American In Paris”: Gershwin At The Palace Theatre
No need to mince words here, this is one of the very best movie-musical-to-stage adaptations, a model, in fact, of
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“Finding Neverland” Attempts To Wrestle Musical Fun From J M Barrie’s Writer’s Block
Producer Harvey Weinstein is determined that his new musical about J M Barrie, the playwright who wrote Peter Pan, will
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Dumbed Down For Modern Sensibilities? “Gigi” Returns To Broadway
With High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens the unlikely-on-paper lead, and advance word that Colette’s story about a young girl
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“Wiener Blut”: Eine explosive Gender-Komödie ums Triebleben aller Beteiligten
At the 2015 edition of Tanz-Signale in Vienna, devoted to Johann Strauss and his librettist Victor Léon, Kevin Clarke talked
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Cowboy Season In New York: “Paint Your Wagon” Back On Broadway
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon (1951) is seldom produced these days, and Encores’ one-week staged concert
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Zany Operetta: “On The 20th Century” Returns To Broadway
A revival of the 1978 musical – based on plays by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur and Bruce Millholland – was
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Spielen und Anspielen: Gedanken zu den Operetten-Libretti von Johann Strauss
This is the lecture Prof. Hans-Dieter Roser gave in the Festsaal of the Vienna town hall, as part of the
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A New “Kismet” In Loveland, Colorado
Peggy and I caught the last performance of Loveland Opera Theater’s Kismet on March 1. This certainly had to have
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live!
Director Alyce Mott resurrected her streamlined version of Victor Herbert’s 1899 operetta based on Edmund Rostand’s classic with the same
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Revisiting 1932 with Oscar Straus’ “Eine Frau, die weiß was sie will”
I can’t help it. I’m an addict. I’m hopelessly addicted to Komische Oper in Berlin. For me, as an American
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