Operetta Research Center » David Savran http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 “Linie 1”: Revising Berlin’s Legendary Subway Musical at GRIPS Theater http://operetta-research-center.org/grips-linie-1-new-production-berlin/ http://operetta-research-center.org/grips-linie-1-new-production-berlin/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:46:16 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24404 When Linie 1 premiered in West-Berlin back in 1986, three years before the wall came down and East and West

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/grips-linie-1-new-production-berlin/feed/ 0 New Art is True Art: Kurt Weill’s “One Touch of Venus” http://operetta-research-center.org/new-art-true-art-kurt-weills-one-touch-venus/ http://operetta-research-center.org/new-art-true-art-kurt-weills-one-touch-venus/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:19:41 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=20986 When Staatsoperette Dresden presented Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus as part of their “Broadway in Dresden” series, in a

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/sondheims-follies-staatsoperette-dresden/feed/ 0 “Nothing More Than This?”: Bernstein’s “Candide” as Existential Vaudeville in Barrie Kosky’s Berlin Production http://operetta-research-center.org/nothing-candide-existential-vaudeville/ http://operetta-research-center.org/nothing-candide-existential-vaudeville/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:46:38 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16977 Imagine a world that persistently rewards the rich and powerful while immiserating the masses. Imagine an international paternalist cartel that

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