Burning to Sing: Gustave Kerker’s Operetta Rediscovered
It’s good to know that German operetta aficionados are busy rediscovering gems from the vaults of the genre’s history. And,
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“Song of Norway,” or: Edvard Grieg’s Return to Broadway
The operetta fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest from the melodies of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg – hugely popular
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The Nance (Lincoln Center Theater)
Nathan Lane gives a polished, multifaceted performance as a fictitious 1930s burlesque performer named Chauncey Miles. He plays what was
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The Irish Have a Great Day Tonight: “Eileen” on New World Records
The Irish are always good for a song. Or so the saying goes. And Dublin-born Victor Herbert’s only “Irish” themed
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Rudolf Friml (b Prague, 8 December 1879; d Hollywood, Calif, 12 November 1972)
The Prague-born Friml studied music in his native city from a young age, and made his early career principally as
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GOING UP Musical comedy in 3 acts
James Montgomery’s 1910 play The Aviator was put to musical use seven years on by its author and the now
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The Judy Garland Show: Volume 5
If anyone really wants to sample the full power of Judy Garland at her mature, late period best – a
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THE DESERT SONG Musical play in 3 acts
The most internationally successful and the most enduring of Sigmund Romberg’s long line of romantic musical plays, The Desert Song
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Gefährliches Gift: Die „authentische“ Operette und was aus ihr nach 1933 wurde
Wie konnte das geschehen? Wie konnte aus der aktuellen, witzigen, frivolen und vor allem internationalen Kunstform Operette, die speziell in
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Oscar Hammerstein’s Complete Lyrics Tells the Story of One Man’s Struggle
Between 1943 and 1959, the lyricist-librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) and his composer partner, Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), transformed American popular
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Interview mit Joseph Olefirowicz zum Thema Operette und Musical
Sie haben lange und erfolgreich im kommerziellen Musicalbereich gearbeitet, u.a. bei der Stella in Bochum, Stuttgart und Berlin, wo Sie
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THE RED WIDOW Musical play in 3 acts
Colonel Savage’s enormously successful novel His Official Wife was leaped upon by a horde of theatrical adapters, filmed by Hollywood
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ROSE MARIE Musical play in 2 acts
Although the Broadway musical theatre had established itself worldwide with its light-handed song-and-dance shows – Going Up, Irene, Mercenary Mary,
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Sigmund Romberg (b Nagykanizsa, Hungary, 29 July 1887; d New York, 9 November 1951)
Romberg studied the violin in his youthful years in Hungary, but he was set at first towards an adult career
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THE VAGABOND KING Musical play in 4 acts
One of the many variants on the Abu Hasan ‘king for a day’ tale, Justin McCarthy’s play If I Were
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