Emmerich Kalman’s “Marinka” At The Komische Oper Berlin
It’s a special treat, that’s for sure: the Komische Oper Berlin is ending its Emmerich Kalman cycle of Christmas operettas
read moreIt’s a special treat, that’s for sure: the Komische Oper Berlin is ending its Emmerich Kalman cycle of Christmas operettas
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read moreAs a companion volume to its recent exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, the Museum
read moreOne thing leads to another … Answering various queries, after my 15 years old article on The Black Crook, which
read moreConsidering that most new books dealing with Broadway history in coffee table format simply recycle what has already been written
read moreGilbert and Sullivan’s successor to the phenomenal HMS Pinafore proved to be another enormous international opéra-bouffe hit. Where the former
read moreOften, in earlier times, quoted as “the first landmark in the history of the American musical theatre”, the 1866 extravaganza
read moreIn 2016, The Black Crook celebrates its 150th anniversary, marking 150 years of the American Musical. To commemorate the sesquicentennial,
read moreApart from the disorienting novelty of Cats taking up residence at the Neil Simon Theatre when, for a record-breaking 7485
read moreIt’s “business as usual” at the Neil Simon Theater, where I caught up with the new revival of Andrew Lloyd
read moreYou might truly hold your breath for a second: the famous show The Black Crook is being revived in New
read moreAdolf Philipp (b Lübeck, 29 January 1864; d New York, 30 July 1936) was the eclectic leading light of the
read moreThe White Horse Inn at the Central Park – an Austrian operetta staged in New York in the 1940s? Yes,
read moreLibrettist and lyricist Michael Colby has written musicals such as Charlotte Sweet and Tales Of Tinseltown, both have just been
read moreIn November 1951, composer Frederick Loewe and librettist Alan Jay Lerner premiered Paint Your Wagon, their homage to the American
read moreIt is always refreshing to see new and awe-inspiring talent. The so called “collages” at the Universität der Künste (UdK)
read moreCharm was in abundance at Light Opera of New York’s semi-staged concert reading of Jerome Kern’s 1920 musical smash Sally,
read moreIt’s not every day that you get to see images of Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss Jr. and Richard Tauber right
read moreDeep among the indelible memories of my theatergoing life are singer Lynnie Godfrey sprawled on a piano suggestively growling “Daddy”
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read moreBret Easton Ellis’ once – and perhaps still – notorious novel about an affluent Wall Street investment banker/serial killer, the
read moreThe genre operetta was invented around 1850 in Paris, as a new and independent musical theater form in the modern
read moreSzirmai was a top-flight Hungarian composer whose career faded when he left home. He studied at the Budapest Zeneakadémia and
read moreSzibill, first produced at the Király Színház, Budapest, on 27 February 1914, was the peak achievement of the short career
read moreWhy is the upcoming revival of Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
read moreMany great operetta things come from Hungary; and you might add, many great musical comedy things too. Emmerich Kalman wanted
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read moreWhen the ambitious young soprano of the famed Bostonians company, Alice Nielsen, decided to break away from the group and
read moreIt is not often that I write about recordings. Since my massive listening-writing effort of The Musical Theatre on Record,
read moreThe popularity of Candide in Germany can be attributed to several factors: the continuing high profile of Leonard Bernstein, the
read moreAn unlikely current hit, the 1923 Yiddish musical Di goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) by Joseph Rumshinsky, emerged after years
read moreAmerican soprano Nadine Secunde is probably not someone you’d immediately associate with operetta or musical comedy, or light(er) music in
read moreWill he “come back”? Will Emmerich Kalman succeed in duplicating the tremendous success of his Countess Maritza, which has been
read moreListening to Kander & Ebb’s The Visit – their adaptation of Durrenmatt’s Besuch der alten Dame – with an operetta
read moreThis week-end, the Budapest Operetta Theatre is hosting a conference on Die Csardasfürstin, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of that
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