Posts Tagged 'Ernst Theis'

The “Fake” Disney Princess: Diana Damrau Sings Operetta

So, here it is at last: Diana Damrau’s operetta album dedicated to the “life embracing side” of the genre and

13/03/2023·1 comment·

There is no real shortage of Frau Luna recordings, the Paul Lincke classic from 1899 has always worked well as

This newly issued 2020 recording from CPO has rarely been out of my CD player since it arrived: it is

“Can music be innocent?“ That‘s the first sentence in the booklet to this new CD of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and

Did it really take until 2021 for a complete Countess Mariza recording to come out? Of course, there have been

My first ‘live’ encounter with Oscar Straus was attending a wonderfully inspired production of his first operetta Die lustigen Nibelungen

01/10/2018·1 comment·

So here it is, finally: the live broadcast of Marc Minkowski’s performance of La Périchole with his Les Musiciens du

It’s not exactly a secret that Johann Strauss was a great dance music composer. Before he turned to operetta in

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Johann Strauss’s final work for the stage, the ballet Aschenbrödel. Most of