Comments for Operetta Research Center http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Comment on “In Dahomey”: One Of The First American Black Musical Hits by Lewis Cole http://operetta-research-center.org/dahomey-first-american-negro-musical-comedy/#comment-14700 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:10:30 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19729#comment-14700 Greetings. Is this Play, “In Dahomey” available for general Public Reading and Etc,? Thanks.

]]> Comment on Kurt Gänzl’s “The Musical: A Concise History” Revisited & Revised by Robert Cutts http://operetta-research-center.org/kurt-ganzl-musical-concise-history/#comment-14612 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:36:46 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23199#comment-14612 Hello Kurt
I’ve taken the liberty of quoting from a passage in your book about Lydia Thompson in my compilation of the journal kept by my great grandfather, Henry Taylor, in his travels to the Americas and the Sandwich Islands. Henry met Harry D. Thompson when he (Harry) was working as a bartender in Port Ludlow in what was then Washington Territory. The journal is in the form of the blog at https://henrytaylorsjournal.blogspot.com/. You don’t need to wade through it. Just search for ‘Lydia.
I will remove the quotation should you wish me to do so.’.
Regards, Robert Cutts

]]> Comment on DAS DREIMÄDERLHAUS Singspiel in 3 acts by Rihard Morris http://operetta-research-center.org/das-dreimaderlhaus-singspiel-3-acts/#comment-14608 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:30:58 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/orca/?p=2470#comment-14608 To Bernadette:

That is from Lilac Time, where it is called ‘Under the lilac bloom’.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2IdSuFkOhShVilTnplyoxg

I ask the spring blossom laden
To show me my maiden
The love that I long for and look for to-day
And she will wear on her bosom
The fair lilac blossom
my fairest my rarest my maid of the may.

]]> Comment on “I Would Like To See More Women Writing About Operetta”: Micaela Baranello Discusses Her Book “The Operetta Empire” by Mike Berliner http://operetta-research-center.org/micaela-baranello-discusses-new-book-operetta-empire/#comment-14501 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:54:13 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21918#comment-14501 Why in the world would anyone care if a the writer was male or female? It’s the content, not gender, that counts.

]]> Comment on Ethel Jackson (1877-1957): Broadway’s First “Merry Widow” by Capt. Bligh http://operetta-research-center.org/ethel-jackson-1877-1957-broadways-first-merry-widow/#comment-14450 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:36:16 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=20484#comment-14450 Informative and interesting article.

]]> Comment on Pure Viagra: Pablo Luna’s “Benamor” Triumphs at Theater an der Wien by Harald Vienna http://operetta-research-center.org/real-queerness-pablo-lunas-benamor-triumphs-theater-der-wien/#comment-14441 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:18:19 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25818#comment-14441 But the whole evening/plot doesn’f work any more as soon as the audience thinks that Dario is a gay man and Benamor a lesbian charakter. I like stagings where you can have a queer plot in your mind that goes with the told story – but to make Benamor a queer story all of the plot would have to be changed!

]]> Comment on A Bold New “Sissy”: Gender-Reversed Kreisler Triumphs in Bremen by Kristina http://operetta-research-center.org/frank-hilbrich-bold-new-sissy-gender-reversed-operetta-triumphs-bremen/#comment-14423 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:58:28 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25747#comment-14423 I completely agree with Peter. What a dissapointment. Making fun out of love story, being cynical. Awful trends.. and I’m only born ’93.. Keep your Christian values (love, sacrifice, service,..), or you gonna end up with someone else’s, Europe.. Visiting Bremen, b

]]> Comment on Fritzi Massary Revisited: An Interview With Her New Biographer by Helmut Schwarzer http://operetta-research-center.org/fritz-massary-revisited-interview-biographer-robert-wennersten/#comment-14396 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:32:16 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=3677#comment-14396 Sadly, Robert E. Wennersten died Oct. 29, 2025, age 86. (see obituary notice at the Neptune Society.
I met him once and we corresponded over the years on matters Massary.

]]> Comment on Farewell, Yvonne Kálmán (1937-2025) by Eileen Bodoh Kalupa http://operetta-research-center.org/farewell-yvonne-kalman-1936-2025/#comment-14376 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:31:13 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25665#comment-14376 Our Austrian-American Society of Milwaukee did a program some years ago on the life and music of Emmerich. We met Yvonne at one of Kalman’s operettas staged in Chicago. And sent her a video we made of the program in Milwaukee. Despite all the hardships Emmerich endured in his life, the music he left us is so soulful and beautiful and will resound in our hearts forever.

]]> Comment on From Blue Danube to Rainbow Waltz: Yannick Nézet‑Séguin Leads Vienna’s New Year’s Concert by Johannes Glück http://operetta-research-center.org/yannick-nezet%e2%80%91seguin-neujahrskonzert-2026-rainbow-waltz/#comment-14370 Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:51:27 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25784#comment-14370 Oddly, what the Vienna Philharmonic performed on Jan. 1 2026 was a strange, incoherent piece that sounded nothing like Ms. Price’s charming “Rainbow Waltz”.

]]> Comment on A Bold New “Sissy”: Gender-Reversed Kreisler Triumphs in Bremen by Tristan http://operetta-research-center.org/frank-hilbrich-bold-new-sissy-gender-reversed-operetta-triumphs-bremen/#comment-14334 Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:59:33 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25747#comment-14334 die berichterstatter jubeln wie immer…dabei auch das bremer haus fast leergespielt: 2. rang immer gesperrt?bemerken sie wohl nicht?

]]> Comment on Guido Masanetz’s “In Frisco ist der Teufel los“ Comes to Komische Oper by Christoph Marti http://operetta-research-center.org/komische-oper-operette-guido-masanetzs-frisco-ist-der-teufel-los-comes-back-berlin/#comment-14330 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:58:03 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25527#comment-14330 The costumes are by Esther Bialas.

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