Posts Tagged 'Dario Salvi'

Four “Legendary Recordings” Of Richard Genée Shows, Including “Seekadett” & “Nanon”

On a sunny summer afternoon last year I had a long inspiring conversation about Richard Genée (1823-1895) with two operetta

“Blindekuh”, literally “blind cow”, is the German term for the “blind man’s buff” game – and it is the title

As part of their Johann Strauss “rediscovery series” the label Naxos is releasing the 1878 operetta Blindekuh which premiered at

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Recently, conductor Dario Salvi performed Franz von Suppé’s one-act Die schöne Galathée (1865) in the UK, in English. It was

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As a conductor and operetta researcher, I have been working, for the last month or so, on restoring the orchestral

It’s not very often that off-the-beaten-track Viennese operetta is performed in the USA nowadays, with the possible exception of Ohio

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In 1916 two of the leading exponents of the Yiddish Theater of New York got together to work on one

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New operas are hard to come by these days—at least that is what I have always been told. Finding an

02/05/2017·1 comment·

It’s quite a miracle: a full cast album of Franz von Suppé’s exotic Die Afrikareise, recorded live and in an

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The enthusiasm is impressive and a role model, no doubt: conductor Dario Salvi got so excited about Franz von Suppé’s

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Dario Salvi has reconstructed Franz von Suppe’s operetta Die Afrikareise (A Trip to Africa) in a ground breaking project with

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01/05/2015·1 comment·

Within the next couple of years A Trip To Africa (Die Afrikareise), widely considered to be Franz von Suppe’s best