Demonstration der Homosexuellen: Skandalscenen in der Komischen Oper!
This in an article from the magazine Das Freundschaftsblatt, 8 July, 1927, reporting on a ground breaking incident in the
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Gay Pride Season 2015 or: Uniformed Men On The Operetta Stage
There is a special connection between police forces – and operetta! Whether it is Offenbach’s Les Brigands or Genevieve de
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The “Europäische Stiftung Operette” Is Back With A Vengeance
The headline in the email to the local press certainly caught our attention: “Europäische Stiftung Operette (ESO) präsentiert Berliner Operette
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What Is Johann Strauss Doing In The Exhibition “Homosexualität_en”?
To say that I was surprised would be putting it mildly. Here I was, at the opening of the grand
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Forget Dames At Sea: Here Come Twelve Gay Sailors
My first reaction was: ‘Not another fairy tale musical!’ But after Monday night’s concert at The Ballery in Berlin, where
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“L’Île de Tulipatan”: Playing With Notions Of Gender And The Idea Of Same-Sex-Marriage
Even after the success of his full-length opéras-bouffes and the disappearance of the constrictions which had limited him in earlier
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Operation Fledermaus
Yes, it is somewhat unusual: a crime novel that is not directly set in the operetta world, but references that
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“The Beastly Bombing”: The Very Model Of A Modern Operetta
The Beastly Bombing, or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by the Tangles of True Love is an operetta in
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“Porn – The Musical.” Or Will It Be An Operetta After All?
The German actor Florian Klein became famous in Hollywood as porn star “Hans Berlin.” After years in the Adult Industry
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Operetta for Generation LGBTQIA: “White Horse Inn” in Bremen
When a production of White Horse Inn starts with a new overture and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” – segueing into
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The Musikalische Komödie In Leipzig Has A New Principal Stage Director: Cusch Jung
The Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig – one of Germany’s three theaters exclusively devoted to operetta and musical comedy – has
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“Die schöne Helena” As A WW2 Drama Of Homosexuality
Considering that Offenbach’s La belle Hélène recently received two extremely “gay” interpretations at the opera houses of Hamburg and Berlin
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Flying Down To Berlin: For the First Operetta Festival At The Komische Oper
You know it’s finally happening when the first international guests fly in and need to be picked up at Tegel
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“Bodies & Gender”: Operetta Symposium In Berlin
Finally, you might say. Or, as the Germans would put it: „Endlich!“ Yes, the Komische Oper Berlin will present the
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Vera Kálmán: “Tonkunst” Issue Dedicated to Composer’s Widows
Here it is: the latest issue of Die Tonkunst. After a recent Bluebeard special that included a big essay on
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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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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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An Academic Symposium on “White Horse Inn” in 2015
Hold your breath: There’s going to be an „interdisciplinary symposium“ on White Horse Inn, examining „new cultural-historical perspectives 1930-2015.“ When?
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“Mein Kamerad – die Diva”: Cross-Dressing Exhibition in Berlin
The topic of cross-dressing in operetta – as well as anywhere else in life and theater – is a hot
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Fritzi Massary Revisited: An Interview With Her New Biographer
Take a deep breath and prepare yourself: there will be – finally – a new and English language biography of
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Queering the Pitch: An Interview With Kevin Clarke
In Amsterdam wurde 2006 das Operetta Research Center gegründet, das sich besonders der Erforschung von Gender- und LGBT-Themen widmet. Jetzt
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“The Funny He-She Ladies”: A New Book on Cross-Dressing in London
There is a new book by Neil McKenna about “Two Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England“ entitled Fanny & Stella.
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Reviving “Axel an der Himmelstür” For Russia
You can call it amazing, it’s certainly reason enough for all operetta fans to listen up: In St. Petersburg a
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What Is Your Favorite LGBT-Themed Show?
Last week-end, there were various Gay Pride Marches in the USA, but also in Europe. Our colleagues at Playbill.com took
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Coward & Novello
Noël Coward (1899-1973) and Ivor Novello (1893-1951), both English, both homosexual, were the two most enduring proponents of English language
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„Spiel’ das mal schwul“: Interview mit Adam Benzwi
Heterosexuelle Gesangsstudenten entdecken bei Prof. Adam Benzwi von der Berliner Universität der Künste seit 20 Jahren den Schlüssel zur Operette,
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“Horrible Prettiness or Satanic Subversiveness”?
“Gender Studies” are something on everyone’s lips these days. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the operetta world has hardly taken note of
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Gender, Genre & Parody
Quite simply put, this is the best book on Gilbert & Sullivan that I have come across. Not in a
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The Nance (Lincoln Center Theater)
Nathan Lane gives a polished, multifaceted performance as a fictitious 1930s burlesque performer named Chauncey Miles. He plays what was
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Die Geburt der Operette aus dem Geist der Pornografie
In Wien präsentierte 2012 eine Ausstellung im alt-ehrwürdigen Theatermuseum eine ungewöhnliche Sicht auf die Operette. Statt als biedere Unterhaltung für
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DAS DREIMÄDERLHAUS Singspiel in 3 acts
The most widely successful, and also one of the most enduring, of all pasticcio musical plays, from The Beggar’s Opera
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