Gypsies and Barons and Heirs. Or: The Merry Widow’s Cousins
The title of this flavorsome concert mounted by LOONY on a seriously rainy Wednesday at the fabled Players Club was
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Broadway Meets Operetta: Susan Stroman Directs “Merry Widow”
You can certainly call this operetta debut ‘special’: stage director Susan Stroman (The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys) will direct a
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“Der Zarewitsch und der Tänzer”: How Gay Is Lehár’s Operetta?
„Warum mag er die Frauen nicht?“ Diese Frage stellen sich nicht nur die Damen der Aristokratie, die in der Theaterpause
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Here Come The Lunatics: Jeff Clarke Talks About Operetta In The UK
Opera in the UK doesn’t only happen in big London theatres with rob-the-bank ticket prices. All over the country there
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Behind the Candelabra: A New “Zarewitsch” in Dresden
This week-end, the Staatsoperette Dresden will present a new staging of Lehár’s notoriously homoerotic Der Zarewitsch where the tenor turns
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Operetta Goddess of the Future: Lady Gaga
You have to hand it to the Americans. They certainly know how to make their classics sound fresh and funky,
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A Definitive Richard Tauber Biography?
You could have been fooled into thinking there cannot possibly be anything new to say on the topic of Richard
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Staatsoperette Dresden: Ready To Move Downtown
Finally, there are images of the new Staatsoperette Dresden. It will be situated in Kraftwerk Mitte. And for the first
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Deep Throat: Jonas Kaufmann Sings 1920s Operetta
When a PR-savvy superstar of the Jonas Kaufmann caliber issues a “cross-over“ album filled with operetta goodies, people take notice.
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The Cologne Collection: The Old EMI-Series Re-Released
It is often hugely fascinating to see how and where classic operetta recordings get recycled. Take for example the EMI
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Ein roter Liebesluftballon unter der Zirkuskuppel
Deutschland, geteiltes Operettenland: In Berlin knistert es an Barrie Koskys Komischer Oper erotisch, in München, wo Josef Köpplinger das Gärtnerplatztheater
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The 2014 Festival in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
You don’t know where Neustrelitz is? Then you have obviously never been on holiday in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the magical region north
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Exporting Operette: The World Is Not Enough
What became eventually known as “operetta” or “opérette” didn’t start its life under that name. The earliest works of the
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Piotr Beczala’s Tribute CD to Richard Tauber
There are two truly stunning moments on this new disc by tenor Piotr Beczala devoted to Richard Tauber. And not
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“Um acht beginnt die Nacht”: Lehar program in Berlin
I don’t know what it is about Lehar that attracts so many people. Well, that’s not entirely true. I do
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“Welt der Operette: Glamour, Stars und Showbusiness”
This big and lavishly illustrated coffee table book appears as a companion to an exhibition at the Österreichischer Theatermuseum in
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Goethe as a musical hero: The case of Lehár’s “Friederike”
Franz Lehár was not the first to think of Goethe as an opera or operetta hero. There was the precedent
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Gefährliches Gift: Die „authentische“ Operette und was aus ihr nach 1933 wurde
Wie konnte das geschehen? Wie konnte aus der aktuellen, witzigen, frivolen und vor allem internationalen Kunstform Operette, die speziell in
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DIE LUSTIGE WITWE Operette in 3 acts
Henri Meilhac’s play L’Attaché d’ambassade, produced at Paris’s Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1861, was not a success. It was played
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DAS LAND DES LÄCHELNS Romantic Operette in 3 acts
Die gelbe Jacke, written to a libretto by the partner of Lehár’s earliest success, Der Rastelbinder (1902), and of his
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The Original Sounds of Operetta: Truesound Transfers
Die von der Firma Truesoundtranfers herausgegebene Serie mit Aufnahmen der Lustigen Witwe, des Graf von Luxemburg und der Zigeunerliebe in
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THE RED WIDOW Musical play in 3 acts
Colonel Savage’s enormously successful novel His Official Wife was leaped upon by a horde of theatrical adapters, filmed by Hollywood
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Lehár’s “Der Mann mit den drei Frauen”
Ich höre; daß sich im Theater an der Wien gegenwärtig eine Affenschande von Julius Bauer mit Musik von Lehar, unter
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