The New Emmerich Kálmán Research Centre In Budapest
We recently reported on the new Emmerich Kálmán Research Centre that will open in Budapest. It’s an academic institution funded
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Kálmán’s “Herzogin von Chicago” At The Deutsches Theater Munich
I have just seen the much-heralded Budapest Operetta Theatre’s re-imagining of Kálmán’s 1928 musical mashup, Die Herzogin von Chicago, at
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The Emmerich Kalman Research Center. Plus: Yvonne Kalman’s 80th Birthday Gala
It was a dazzling party: Yvonne Kalman celebrated her 80th birthday last week-end in Budapest as a big gala event,
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Trying To Avoid The Same Old Superlatives: The 2017 Ohio Light Opera Season
Writing these annual roundups of Ohio Light Opera’s summer festival – run with consistent panache by Artistic Director Steven Daigle
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Christian Miebach: Singing “Csardasfürstin” In Rüdersdorf And At The Wedding Of Manuel Neuer
This dashing young musical comedy guy, born 1990 in Germany’s Black Forrest region near Karlsruhe, just ventured far into “enemy
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Kálmán Forever: Hungarian Operetta Exhibition In Moscow
The Hungarian Herman Ottó Muzeum has announced that it has debuted in Moscow with a solo exhibition. At the end
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Totally Cool? The New Operetta Season In Baden Bei Wien
The luxurious little spa town Baden bei Wien – 45 minutes from the center of Vienna by tram – considers
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Tenor Endrik Wottrich Dead At 53
Most operetta fans will remember Berlin-based tenor Endrik Wottrich because he sings the male lead in Kalman’s Die Herzogin von
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Re-Visiting The Villas Of Bad Ischl: Marie-Theres Arnbom’s New Book
Anyone who is even remotely interested in the history of German language operetta knows that Bad Ischl – a kind
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The Unveiling Of The Imre Kálmán Theater With “The Riviera Girl”
On Nagymezó, the historic theatre street of Budapest, a bronze statue of operetta composer Emmerich Kálmán sits on the end
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“Csardasfürstin” In Magdeburg With A New “Killer Ending”
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone hired choreographer Otto Pichler to stage an operetta all by
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Offenbach’s “Ritter Blaubart” Returns: The New Operetta Season At Komische Oper
Berlin’s Komische Oper and its artistic director Barrie Kosky are always good for a surprise, most certainly when it comes
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An Overdose Of Nostalgia: The Arthaus TV Operetta Series
Can this really be happening, is Arthaus-Unitel seriously re-issuing all of these old TV operetta adaptations from the early 1970s
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Viennese Operetta Gems 1927-1949: A Classic Naxos Compilation
Any operetta compilation that starts with Charles Kullmann singing “Als flotter Geist, doch früh verwaist” like this has my immediate
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Kalman’s “Faschingsfee”: Carnival Spectacle At Munich’s Gärtnerplatz
The nomadic company of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz has staged a rare, highly successful and most enjoyable revival of Kalman’s 1917
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Kalman’s “Zirkusprinzessin” At The Volksoper Wien
The Vienna Volksoper’s new staging – their first since 1988 – of Die Zirkusprinzessin is unashamedly old-fashioned – and there’s
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Kalman’s “Die Bajadere”: Radio Recording From Cologne
With Die Bajadere, Emmerich Kalman embarked on a new path as a composer in 1921: he changed his librettist team
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Rediscovering The 1945 Broadway Hit “Marinka”
Writing from the point of view as an American visiting Berlin, the Komische Oper’s second concert performance of Emmerich Kálmán’s
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“The Csárdás Princess” In London: The World-Tour Continues
Over 100 years after its world-premiere, Emmerich Kálmán’s The Csárdás Princess comes to London once more on 28 November 2016.
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Joseph Beer’s “Polnische Hochzeit” (1937) On CPO
“In der Heimat blüh’n die Rosen – nicht für mich den Heimatlosen”, sings Count Boleslav in his first big solo
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Emmerich Kalman’s “Marinka” At The Komische Oper Berlin
It’s a special treat, that’s for sure: the Komische Oper Berlin is ending its Emmerich Kalman cycle of Christmas operettas
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“Every Country Gets The Operetta It Deserves”: Trends, Ideological Wars And New Books
In variation of the famous saying “Every country has the government it deserves” – by 18th century political philosopher Joseph-Marie
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András Szentpéteri: Exporting Hungarian Operetta And Bringing Broadway To Budapest
András Szentpéteri is the head of Pentaton Concert and Artist Management, the company in charge of organising the international tours
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Dostal’s “Ungarische Hochzeit” (1939): First Complete Recording Of “Lebensraum” Operetta
Here is a new and first complete recording of Nico Dostal’s 1939 operetta Ungarische Hochzeit – premiered at the opera
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“An Autumn Trilogy”: The Budapest Operetta Theater In Ravenna
Ravenna in Northern Italy is famous for many things: it was the capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402
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Grand Opening: The New Emmerich Kálmán Theátrum In Budapest
For their 2016/17 season, the Budapest Operetta Theater (BOT) has some surprises in store. They might have opened the season
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The 2016 Ohio Light Opera Season: “Hollandweibchen” and “Dancing Years”
The Ohio Light Opera – that lovably enduring shrine to operetta and musical theater – just gets better and better
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“Bühnenbild: Peter Kothe.” The Forgotten World Of Operetta In Socialism
Operetta in East-Germany has turned into a topic I have become more and more fascinated with. Maybe because my first
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„Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech’ dich damit tot!“ Die Entnazifizierung der NS-Operette zwischen 1945 und 2015
Nach der sogenannten „Stunde Null“ am 8. Mai 1945 hatten die Menschen in Deutschland mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit andere Sorgen, als sich
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World Premiere Recording: Kálmán’s “The Little King” From Ohio
Could any musical comedy from 1912 be more up-to-date from today’s war-on-terror-perspective? This is the story of a revolution of
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An Historically Rich “Duchess of Chicago” in Budapest
I recommend booking travel tickets now for Budapest – to arrive before June 9, 2016. That’s the date of the
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Zsolt Vadász: “Land des Lächelns” in St. Petersburg And Tassilo In Munich
Every country, and every generation for that matter, has its “no. 1” tenor. In Germany, back in the 1920s and
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“Gräfin Mariza” At The Deutsches Theater Munich
Fans of 1920′s jazz operettas don’t usually consider Kálmán’s Gräfin Mariza a modern syncopated show. Instead, they put this international
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“Die Herzogin von Chicago”: Teaching Budapest The Charleston Again
Wenn man seine Dissertation über ein Werk wie Die Herzogin von Chicago geschrieben hat, wenn man all die Aufnahmen von
read more![Albert SZIRMAI [aka SIRMAY]: b Budapest, 2 July 1880; d New York, 15 January 1967](http://operetta-research-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sirmay-436x291.jpg "Albert SZIRMAI [aka SIRMAY]: b Budapest, 2 July 1880; d New York, 15 January 1967")
Albert SZIRMAI [aka SIRMAY]: b Budapest, 2 July 1880; d New York, 15 January 1967
Szirmai was a top-flight Hungarian composer whose career faded when he left home. He studied at the Budapest Zeneakadémia and
read more![Viktor JACOBI [JAKABFI]: b Budapest, 22 October 1883; d New York, 10 December 1921](http://operetta-research-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Jacobi_Viktor-436x291.jpg "Viktor JACOBI [JAKABFI]: b Budapest, 22 October 1883; d New York, 10 December 1921")
Viktor JACOBI [JAKABFI]: b Budapest, 22 October 1883; d New York, 10 December 1921
Viktor Jakabfi is one of the group of successful Hungarian composers who dominated the European musical stage in the early
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