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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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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There’s exciting news coming from Wiesbaden, Germany. The local Hessisches Staatstheater is presenting a new Gräfin Mariza production, directed by
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The one-act l‘île de Tulipatan, written by Jacques Offenbach with his librettists Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru in 1868 for
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How do you solve a problem like – operetta? The question has been asked many times over, especially since so
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At Komische Oper Berlin, Paul Ábrahám’s ‘last’ operetta premiered in a new production by Stefan Huber, with a newly arranged
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With an Offenbach conference coming up in June in Cologne that includes a section dedicated to “Discourses and Identities” and
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Finally – and that’s really the only appropriate word for it: finally the updated 1950s movie version of Die Fledermaus,
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Ivor Novello’s World War 2 hit The Dancing Years has finally been made available in a ‘first complete recording’ by
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Mind the apostrophes! The recent revival of Paul Lincke’s Frau Luna at Tipi am Kanzleramt is a firm reference point
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Last week the international operetta research world gathered in Leeds for a conference which was – nothing short of remarkable!
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A combination of circumstances led me, a year or three ago, to a little coven of enthusiasts fascinated by the
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Back in 2014, corresponding with the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, the Schwules Museum in Berlin offered
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From 10 to 12 January 2019 the University of Leeds is hosting an international operetta conference entitled Gaiety, Glitz and
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It’s a weird and wonderful experience to sit in the Tipi-am-Kanzleramt tent, waiting for a performance of Kander & Ebb’s
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In a recent article for The Times, Jamie Stoker reported on casting for London’s Magic Mike Live. The headline says
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It started out as a small concert performance at Schwules Museum in Berlin in the context of a Siegfried Wagner
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There is a Facebook group out there called Adonises of the Silver Screen. It offers amazing photos of and anecdotes
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It’s interesting how you can have a full cast recording sitting on your CD shelf for decades, and it never
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Recently, gender and diversity Prof. Simon Dickel gave an interview on Deutschlandfunk talking about his new book Queer Cinema which
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The format of the cabaret operetta has fallen out of favor, somewhat. 100 years ago, theaters all over the world
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The Geschwister Pfister – a German-Swiss-Croatian comedy trio – have written operetta history, many times over. Yes, they were the
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The unpretentious German city of Giessen has a population of 78,000 and boasts two fine buildings: the railway station and
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Since Offenbach’s Island of Tulipatan has popped up again on the general radar, with a brand new English language recording
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We need to talk about Offenbach, seriously and right now. Is it a sign of our gender-queer times that of
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Die Wirkungsgeschichte von Ikonen folgt eigenen Maßstäben. Und die von Claire Waldoff ganz besonders. Denn die Lieder und Aufnahmen der
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Julius Bauer (1854-1941) was, like many Viennese operetta librettists, a highly cultured and witty man. He studied medicine and then
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The Light Opera of New York (LOONY) shifted gears this spring from its annual early American operetta – usually by
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Sasha Regan has been director of the Union Theatre in London for 19 years. It is a small space, seating
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As everyone knows, operetta in its original form was a very liberated art form, in terms of sexual politics. And
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Charles Amberg (1894-1946) is not exactly a household name today, and even dedicated operetta fans will be hard pressed to
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The ‘comic opera’ Patience (or ‘Bunthorne’s Bride’) has an important place in theatrical history. It was the first stage production
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