Posts Tagged 'Anneliese Rothenberger'

New Recording from Graz: Nico Dostal’s “Clivia” on cpo

Nico Dostal scored a hit with his Clivia when it premiered at Berlin’s Theater am Nollendorfplatz in December 1933, after

Soprano Ethel Merhaut is part of the “young musical scene of Vienna” and likes to “use lots of charme and

News

01/06/2020·1 comment·

I heard yesterday that Mady Mesplé had died. I have to admit that, to me, she belonged to a past

In Print

How do you solve a problem like – operetta? The question has been asked many times over, especially since so

On Screen

03/05/2019·1 comment·

Finally – and that’s really the only appropriate word for it: finally the updated 1950s movie version of Die Fledermaus,

19/05/2018·1 comment·

Kurt Gänzl is no stranger to readers of these pages. As the author of The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre

On Screen

In a 2018 essay entitled Das Webvideo als Flaschenpost, or “the web video as message in a bottle,” Chris Tedjasukmana

It’s an unusual coupling, to say the very least: Anneliese Rothenberger and Max Hansen in one recording? The hairspray-star of

We need to talk about Offenbach, seriously and right now. Is it a sign of our gender-queer times that of

It is often hugely fascinating to see how and where classic operetta recordings get recycled. Take for example the EMI

Dutch baritone Peter Bording studied singing with Jan Handerson, graduated from the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam and concluded his studies at