Willard G. Day’s “Lovely Galatea”: Ageing Disgracefully
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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“Pretty little China girl, velly, velly nice”: How Do You Revive Kerker’s “Belle of New York” Today?
As a conductor and operetta researcher, I have been working, for the last month or so, on restoring the orchestral
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A Trip to …. America: Genée and Suppé At Concert Operetta Theater In Philadelphia
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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Joseph Rumshinsky’s “The Broken Violin”: Call For Help
In 1916 two of the leading exponents of the Yiddish Theater of New York got together to work on one
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Richard Genée’s “Der Seekadett”: New Edition By Dario Salvi
New operas are hard to come by these days—at least that is what I have always been told. Finding an
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“A Trip To Africa”: Franz von Suppé’s Oriental Operetta In English
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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“A Trip to Africa”: Suppé’s Operetta Available At Cambridge Scholars
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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Strike Up The Band: “A Trip To Africa” By Franz von Suppé
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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“Trip To Africa”: Reconstructing A Forgotten Classic
Within the next couple of years A Trip To Africa (Die Afrikareise), widely considered to be Franz von Suppe’s best
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