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Fly Me To The Moon: Kurt Kurt Gänzl reviews the new “Le Voyage dans la lune”

kevin — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:30:31 +0000

A new recording from Bru Zane? After their tremendous job with La Fille de Madame Angot, I am all agog.

kevin — Fri, 28 May 2021 09:04:46 +0000

The history of Die lustige Witwe has fascinated us, here at the Operetta Research Center, immensely over the past months.

kevin — Thu, 20 May 2021 14:50:35 +0000

When the invitation from Palazzetto Bru Zane arrived, to fly to Paris and attend a performance of Hervé’s V’lan dans

kevin — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:31:34 +0000

This picture looked to me like a rather nice American girlie entertainment from the Twenties. Wonder what it is, thought

kevin — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:32:39 +0000

When you ‘live’ in a certain ‘world’ – in my case, that of the 19th century musical theatre – you

kevin — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 10:29:42 +0000

There’s an increasingly firece discussion about supposed “racism” in operetta. Recently, a production of Franz Lehár’s Land des Lächelns at

kevin — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:38:53 +0000

The only way I can describe my reaction to this attractively packaged new Franz Lehár reader, published to coincide with

kevin — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:39:36 +0000

The paperback edition of this fascinating, useful and, on the whole, well researched book sells for about 20 Euros on

kevin — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:24:36 +0000

In his novel Where Angels Fear to Tread, published in 1905, E. M. Forster describes a performance of Lucia di

kevin — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:25:32 +0000

It is so easy to rip a performance apart. But what do you do if you see perfection? Alright, if

kevin — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:07:07 +0000

One cannot call them “reviews,” since I don’t read music, and a performance has to be either very good or

kevin — Mon, 13 May 2019 09:39:11 +0000

As I sit watching the current TV series Fosse/Verdon, starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as two show business legends,