Operetta Research Center » Francis Burnand http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 F. C. Burnand’s “Ixion”: The Original British Burlesque Hit Of 1863 http://operetta-research-center.org/ixion-burlesque-hit-1863/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ixion-burlesque-hit-1863/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:08:44 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18398 I first came seriously in contact with F. C. Burnand’s burlesque, Ixion, when working on my biography of burlesque megastar,

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ixion-burlesque-hit-1863/feed/ 1 The First Great Dickensian Operetta: “Pickwick” (1889) http://operetta-research-center.org/first-great-dickensian-operettaon-disc-pickwick-1889/ http://operetta-research-center.org/first-great-dickensian-operettaon-disc-pickwick-1889/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:04:49 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=9037 Retrospect Opera, a registered charity in Britain, has launched a project to record the operetta Pickwick (1889) by Sir Francis

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