http://operetta-research-center.org/like-emma-kirkby-singing-wagner-art-operetta-gramophone-magazine-december-special/ The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://operetta-research-center.org/like-emma-kirkby-singing-wagner-art-operetta-gramophone-magazine-december-special/#comment-9528 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:01:48 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21047#comment-9528 The art of singing operetta has gone out of style. The skills neeed to perform these stage works has disappeared for the most part in live performances and recordings.The Viennese operettas of it’s golden age and later it’s silver age are still staged but in strange arrangements. Operetta singers are not Opera stars but character singing actors. That is what has been lost over time.Old recordings help us see what has been lost.

]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/like-emma-kirkby-singing-wagner-art-operetta-gramophone-magazine-december-special/#comment-8876 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:58:53 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21047#comment-8876 You quite reasonably regret the fact that Richard Bratby misses the opportunity to explore what is at stake in Kosky loathing a way of singing operetta that Bratby loves. But this issue arises for you too and you do not discuss it (at least not in this article). For Kosky loathes Schwarzkopf’s operetta singing – singing which I believe you love.

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