Operetta Research Center » Derek B. Scott 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 Routlegde’s “Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta” http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/ http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:35:48 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25145 Back in the year 2019, the University of Leeds hosted an conference put together by Derek B. Scott and Anastasia

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/feed/ 0 “The Operetta Empire”: A New Book By Micaela Baranello http://operetta-research-center.org/operetta-empire-new-book-micaela-baranello/ http://operetta-research-center.org/operetta-empire-new-book-micaela-baranello/#comments Mon, 03 May 2021 10:59:51 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21853 Rejoice greatly! There’s another big English language book on operetta, following last year’s Cambridge Companion to Operetta. This new publication

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/operetta-empire-new-book-micaela-baranello/feed/ 0 Right Wing Propaganda Or Enriching? The New Interest In Nationalist Operetta Histories http://operetta-research-center.org/right-wing-propaganda-enriching-new-interest-nationalist-operetta-histories/ http://operetta-research-center.org/right-wing-propaganda-enriching-new-interest-nationalist-operetta-histories/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:39:53 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21800 What’s new in the world of operetta research? Well, after the recent conference in Ljubljana dedicated to Operetta Between the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/right-wing-propaganda-enriching-new-interest-nationalist-operetta-histories/feed/ 0 Is The Gold & Silver Terminology Nothing More Than Camouflaged Anti-Semitism? http://operetta-research-center.org/gold-silver-terminology-nothing-camouflaged-anti-semitism/ http://operetta-research-center.org/gold-silver-terminology-nothing-camouflaged-anti-semitism/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:16:43 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21348 On 27 January, 1945 the Nazi concentration in Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Army. Memorial speeches all over the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/gold-silver-terminology-nothing-camouflaged-anti-semitism/feed/ 1 Reading “The Cambridge Companion To Operetta” In Times Of Self-Isolation http://operetta-research-center.org/reading-the-cambridge-companion-operetta-in-times-of-self-isolation/ http://operetta-research-center.org/reading-the-cambridge-companion-operetta-in-times-of-self-isolation/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:39:36 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19426 The paperback edition of this fascinating, useful and, on the whole, well researched book sells for about 20 Euros on

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/reading-the-cambridge-companion-operetta-in-times-of-self-isolation/feed/ 0 “The Cambridge Companion to Operetta”: Taking A New Look At The Genre In English http://operetta-research-center.org/cambridge-companion-operetta-taking-new-look-genre-english/ http://operetta-research-center.org/cambridge-companion-operetta-taking-new-look-genre-english/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:12:05 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18730 It was about bloody time, you might say, that someone published a new English language reference book on the history

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/cambridge-companion-operetta-taking-new-look-genre-english/feed/ 0 German Operetta On Broadway And In The West End: 1900 To 1940 http://operetta-research-center.org/german-operetta-broadway-west-end-1900-1940/ http://operetta-research-center.org/german-operetta-broadway-west-end-1900-1940/#comments Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:42:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18057 Considering that there are not that many new books on operetta in English, one must greet Derek B. Scott’s fresh-off-the-press

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/german-operetta-broadway-west-end-1900-1940/feed/ 0 Ethnic Exoticism & Chinese Stereotypes. Or: Lehár’s “Das Land des Lächelns” At The Mörbisch Summer Festival 2019 http://operetta-research-center.org/racism-chinese-stereotypes-das-land-des-lachelns-morbisch-summer-festival/ http://operetta-research-center.org/racism-chinese-stereotypes-das-land-des-lachelns-morbisch-summer-festival/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:38:59 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=17871 Bigger is not automatically better, some claim, and that’s especially true for operetta, or operetta festivals. So just because the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/racism-chinese-stereotypes-das-land-des-lachelns-morbisch-summer-festival/feed/ 1 “Gaiety, Glitz and Glamour — or Dispirited Historical Dregs? A Re-Evaluation of Operetta”: A Conversation with Prof. Derek B. Scott http://operetta-research-center.org/gaiety-glitz-glamour-dispirited-historical-dregs-re-evaluation-operetta-conversation-prof-derek-b-scott/ http://operetta-research-center.org/gaiety-glitz-glamour-dispirited-historical-dregs-re-evaluation-operetta-conversation-prof-derek-b-scott/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:33:46 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=15956 From 10 to 12 January 2019 the University of Leeds is hosting an international operetta conference entitled Gaiety, Glitz and

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