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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You could say this is rather daring (and wonderful): bringing Paul Lincke’s 1905 extravaganza Prinzess Rosine – which includes a
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In the new edition of the book Glitter and be Gay: Reloaded Spanish musicologist Enrique Mejías García writes about the
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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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It’s almost a quarter of a century ago that Laurence Senelick published his book The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and
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Yes, there is an institution called National Operetta of Ukraine. It has been situated in the National Academic Theater of
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Great news from the German operetta market: the 2021 Operette für zwei schwule Tenöre (“Operetta for two gay tenors”) is
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The out-door operetta festival in the castle gardens of Neustrelitz – an hour north of Berlin – is offering Oscar
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Just as the season in Germany is about to close, two new operetta productions hit the stage that give cause
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We’ve all read stories about the big players: Jacques Offenbach, Ludovic Halevy, Henri Meilhac, and certainly Napoleon III. But you
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This updated version of the classic Kálmán operetta premiered on 25 November in Norwegian with English subtitles. “Nothing is lost,
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In 2021, the “bittersweet musical romance” The Pleasure Garden premiered at the Above the Stag theater in London. It’s a
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Back in 2004, the Wien Museum presented the exhibition Alt-Wien: Die Stadt, die niemals war. It examined the phenomenon that
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The show was commissioned from Sandy Wilson, the author-composer of The Boy Friend, by Oscar Lewenstein and the Royal Court Theatre as
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A modern-day operetta about two gay men and their relationship troubles manages to draw in crowds: Operette für zwei schwule
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Many people have wondered what Barrie Kosky will do next in terms of popular musical theater at Komische Oper, once
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The Operette für zwei schwule Tenöre by composer Florian Ludewig and text author Johannes Kram is back in Berlin for
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“Welcome to the 20s” says the poster for Lila Lied, “The Queer Cabaret” that was presented in Berlin’s SchwuZ. In
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The BKA Theater (Berliner Kabarett Anstalt) just announced that “the world’s first queer operetta” will premiere on 6 October, 2021,
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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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Politiksatiren können ganz wunderbar als Musical oder Operette funktionieren, wie nicht nur Jacques Offenbach im 19. Jahrhundert immer wieder gezeigt
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Due to Corona, Landesbühnen Sachsen in Germany put on two small scale one-acters last year: Offenbach’s The Island of Tulipatan
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It’s astonishing that Sony Masterworks is releasing an album of operetta songs – in jazz arrangements! Presented by the young
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Als das Dreimäderlhaus am 15. Januar 1916 im Wiener Raimundtheater in Premiere ging waren die Kritiken gespalten. Denn Komponist Heinrich
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Born in Caracas, Venezuela, on 9 August, 1874, Reynaldo Hahn was the elegant, soigné composer whose work for the French
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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 gimmick with which the West End revival of Sasha Regan’s Pirates of Penzance at the Palace Theatre was recently
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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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Beim Verlag Königshausen & Neumann ist soeben in zwei Bänden Musik und Gesellschaft erschienen, mit den Schlagwörtern „Marktplätze – Kampfzonen
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Most operetta fans will know David Slattery-Christy as the biographer of Ivor Novello (1893-1951) and as a tireless champion of
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Wohlbrück or Walbrook? Adolf or Anton? Whatever you choose to call him, the actor known under two names was one
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In 2007, a music manager in the US started a blog called Barihunks, dedicated to hunky baritones. Over the years,
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The Drama Review (TDR) is planning a special issue on the developments in the German theater scene from 2010 to
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Some will claim that Hello Dolly, Mame or La Cage aux Folles are among the greatest modern operettas in the
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No one can really claim that there is not an abundance of exciting Offenbach literature that has been published since
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So here it is, the world’s “first gay opera guide,” or so the publisher claims. It’s a small Berlin based
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