Operetta Research Center » Eduard Künneke

Ohio Light Opera 2025 – A Survey of the Highlights

kevin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:46:14 +0000

Where else but at the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster could you find such a wonderfully varied season of musicals

kevin — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:38:02 +0000

One of the things that irritates me about Richard Traubner’s book Operetta: A Theatrical History is the way he dismisses

kevin — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:20:28 +0000

After rumors had already started circulating, it’s now official: Komische Oper Berlin has cancelled its live stream of Paul Abraham’s

kevin — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:17:07 +0000

Yeehaw! Komische Oper Berlin has finally awoken from its Sleeping Beauty Corona mode; the company has decided to offer something

kevin — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:30:04 +0000

Putting on Eduard Künneke’s 1920 hit Der Vetter aus Dingsda seemed like a good idea in times of Corona restrictions:

kevin — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:10:19 +0000

The 2nd wave Corona lockdown has made operetta performances virtually impossible in many countries, and it looks like it might

kevin — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:25:17 +0000

When Eduard Künneke presented his syncopated Der Vetter aus Dingsda in Berlin 1921, it was quite revolutionary to have so

kevin — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 07:07:37 +0000

After a successful 2017 season, the team working with young Emmental director Simon Burkhalter is once again relying on last

kevin — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:40:11 +0000

Kevin Clarke has recently penned a fascinating article concerning the background to the composition of Die große Sünderin, first produced

kevin — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 07:51:40 +0000

You might recall that back in the 1990s a renewed interest in so called ‘degenerate’ operettas spread around the world.

kevin — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:37:04 +0000

Eduard Künneke (1885-1953) has been described by Kurt Ganzl as “the most appreciable German composer for the mid-20th-century musical stage”;

kevin — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:22:40 +0000

The Theater Vorpommern / Haus Stralsund will open its new season with Künneke’s Der Vetter aus Dingsda on October 8.