Posts Tagged 'Cole Porter'

New Art is True Art: Kurt Weill’s “One Touch of Venus”

When Staatsoperette Dresden presented Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus as part of their “Broadway in Dresden” series, in a

A scratchy, smoky voice with a Scottish accent, and a piano: Christine Bovill’s latest show at Bar jeder Vernunft

Enterprising Ohio Light Opera, ever devoted to ‘authentic’ productions from the world of musical comedy and operetta, seems to go

The Ohio Light Opera – that lovably enduring shrine to operetta and musical theater – just gets better and better

18/01/2016·1 comment·

Barrie Kosky’s first foray into the Broadway musical at the Komische Oper was Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate in 2008,

In their 2015 summer season, the Ohio Light Opera presented the original stage version of Cole Porter’s Can-Can. It’s a

Though an unfortunate scheduling conflict prevented my attending this delightful company’s second annual symposium as I did last year, I

Yes, Mr. John Wilson and his orchestra are at it again. After they presented Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate at

Last Friday at New York’s Town Hall marked a major event for historians of musical theatre. For one night only,