Comments on: A Critical Quotebook: Marion Linhardt’s “Stimmen zur Unterhaltung” Revisited

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:27:47 +0000

Are you mentioning Harald Serafin as an alternative example to Bo Skovhus as Danilo, as someone closer to the Treumann ideal?

By: Kurt Gänzl

Kurt Gänzl — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 07:17:45 +0000

Hear, hear. I haven’t seen the book, but collections of contemporary writings are always fascinating. I have an 18th century British book which consists wholly of various reviews of the current actors. It gives a much clearer picture of the people and the times than ‘scholarly works’ or memoirs.
Agreed: I find footnotes a horrid feature of ‘academic’ writing. As my first publisher said, if it’s worth saying, put it in the text! And oh dear, to reference ones self … truly gauche!
Perhaps I had better get this book …

By: sinisa

sinisa — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:12:15 +0000

Mirjana Irosch was an extremely beautiful Operetta star singer and still may be now doing a few character parts here and there. Harald Serafin was absolutely debonaire on stage, an elegant baritone even in older age. He was also (recently retired) director of the Moerbisch Summer open air Operetta Festival in Austria near the Hungarian border which has had popular opulent productions and always sells out all Summer. They are household names in Vienna.