Der Theaterhistoriker Wolfgang Jansen widmet sich in seinem neuen Buch der Geschichte des Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, in der Zeit 1945
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In Braunschweig, Germany, a new production of Im weißen Rössl by stage director Immo Karaman is causing quite a bit
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At the Theater Osnabrück a new production of Im weißen Rössl is currently playing, a staging by Tobias Bonn of
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The history of Berliner Großes Schauspielhaus – birthplace of the great 1920s Eric Charell revues and especially of Im weißen
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At Theater Dortmund a new version of Die lustige Witwe presents the Lehár show as “a revue operetta” with a
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Encountering Im weißen Rössl in its French version can be a joy, as anyone knows who has ever heard Bourvil
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Most operetta fans will know Paul O’Montis because he made a famous recording of “Was kann der Sigismund dafür, dass
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Using the famous line “Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau,” the artistic director of Staatsoperette Dresden, Kathrin Kondaurow, has presented her
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The English author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) is best known as a novelist and playwright. He also kept a journal in
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When the Shakespeare adaptation Swingin‘ the Dream opened on Broadway in 1939 it followed Erik Charell’s earlier XXL-sized Broadway hit
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The Austrian newspaper Der Standard has added a forgotten film operetta to their DVD series “Der österreichische Film”, a movie
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There’s a lot happening in the world of theater right now, not just because of Corona and the ongoing lockdown
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It’s going to happen: Berlin will get an “Exilmuseum,” a museum dedicated to the stories of those who went into
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Has the long waiting finally come to an end, is post-Corona operetta back? After the somewhat problematic “Jewish and Gay”
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Today, 90 years ago on 1 April 1930, the famous film Der blaue Engel premiered in Berlin’s Gloria Palace. It
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When I was about eight years old I have vivid memories of my mother doing the housework, continually singing “Oh,
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As I sit watching the current TV series Fosse/Verdon, starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as two show business legends,
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The Ischl Lehár Festival has announced what you may expect in 2019 – with the new artistic director Thomas Enzinger.
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Just when you think there cannot, possibly, be any more Im weißen Rössl stuff coming your way – there is!
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Over the past twenty years, German-speaking operetta has been enjoying a revival, especially Berlin operettas of the Weimar Republic by
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The lyricists behind our classic pop songs are generally unknown or forgotten. Robert Gilbert (pseuydonym of Robert Winterfeld, 1899–1978) wrote
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There are many events and exhibitions, TV documentaries and newspaper articles in circulations right now in Germany, commemorating the end
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It will come as no surprise when I say that Im weißen Rössl holds an extra-special place in my heart,
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The overwhelming and instant success of Erik Charell’s operetta spectacle Im weißen Rössl at Berlin’s Großes Schauspielhaus (the so-called “Theater
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It is astonishing that one of the main elements of almost every operetta – dance! – is so undervalued today.
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Erik Charell, the director of the original film version of Der Kongress tanzt, labored long and hard to bring his
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Last weekend, the Royal Musical Association devoted one of its study days to what has controversially been described as the
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Has operetta research shifted gear? One could think so, considering that there are finally in-depth academic studies coming out that
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There are a few ‘musicals’ written in the last seventy years which, because of both the specific quality of their
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Die Wirkungsgeschichte von Ikonen folgt eigenen Maßstäben. Und die von Claire Waldoff ganz besonders. Denn die Lieder und Aufnahmen der
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If you grew up as a kid in Germany, you probably learned early from a famous TV program to always
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Here is a splashy new biography of “Broadway’s Greatest Producer,” Florenz Ziegfeld, written by the team of the Brideson sisters,
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The White Horse Inn at the Central Park – an Austrian operetta staged in New York in the 1940s? Yes,
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To tell the truth: Im weißen Rössl at the Neustrelitz open air operetta festival was fascinating! For a start, I
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Das Weiße Rössl am Central Park – eine österreichische Kultoperette im New York der 40er Jahre? 1941 und 1947 war
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It’s rare, these days, to encounter such personal enthusiasm for operetta history as is demonstrated in the picturesque town of
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