Comments on: “Der tapfere Soldat”: What Recordings Are There Of The 1908 Oscar Straus Show?

By: Ignacio Jassa Haro

Ignacio Jassa Haro — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:07:04 +0000

I would like to remind a wonderful studio recording by La voz de su amo (New York, 1931) which was remastered by Blue Moon (Barcelona, 2000). The recording shows a strong Spanish-Mexican cast directed by maestro Eduardo Vigil Robles and makes use of the most popular of the five (!) adaptations performed in Spain by zarzuela companies during the second and third decades of the 20th century. It deserves to be enjoyed!

By: Bill White

Bill White — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:50:36 +0000

Of course, the Capriccio recording documents a Koln WDR performance from 1993, not 2012. The original 1909 version of the Chocolate Soldier on Broadway (which downplayed the Shaw anti-war message) has been revived and revised several times since then. The Rise Stevens, Robert Merrill highlights disc may be a little schlocky, but features two of the finest voices to ever sing musicals or operetta.

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:16:25 +0000

Of course, MGM’s turn of the century musical,”Two Weeks With Love,” 1950, has nothing to do with “The Chocolate Soldier,” either, except to give Jane Powell a sweetly touching “I’m a young woman and proud of it,” moment when she gamely negotiates My Hero while wearing a form-fitting corset.