Posts Tagged 'Ernst Lubitsch'

“Ein Walzertraum” as This Year’s Summer Spectacle in Neustrelitz

The out-door operetta festival in the castle gardens of Neustrelitz – an hour north of Berlin – is offering Oscar

After an early career spent performing in cafés and suburban music halls, Maurice Chevalier (born in Ménilmontant on 12 September,

News

It doesn’t happen often that an operetta composer gets that much attention in the general media, certainly the Germany language

On Screen

Kálmán’s 1920 Viennese hit Das Hollandweibchen is a special work that marks a turning point in the composer’s long career.

In Print

23/01/2020·1 comment·

One of the more joyous things about recent new studies on musicals is the fact that they include operettas, without

On Screen

It is not quite an “indecent proposal,” as in the 1993 Robert Redford movie. But still, it’s a stunning offer:

The Student Prince was not the first musical to be based on Meyer-Förster’s 1901 Studentenstück Alt Heidelberg (Berliner Theater 22