Posts Tagged 'George Gershwin'

“Strike Up the Band”: Gershwin Mixed with Gilbert & Sullivan

Director/conductor Ted Sperling has again done George and Ira Gershwin proud with his one-night performance of the first of the

Another Porgy and Bess recording? Pentanone Classics has released highlights conducted by Marin Alsop, taken from a live concert in

The English author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) is best known as a novelist and playwright. He also kept a journal in

Politiksatiren können ganz wunderbar als Musical oder Operette funktionieren, wie nicht nur Jacques Offenbach im 19. Jahrhundert immer wieder gezeigt

When Staatsoperette Dresden presented Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus as part of their “Broadway in Dresden” series, in a

Artistic Director Ted Sperling conducted a splendid concert reading of George and Ira Gershwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1933 musical Of Thee

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It’s always a special treat to see new – and interesting – people coming to musical material that some consider

Writing these annual roundups of Ohio Light Opera’s summer festival – run with consistent panache by Artistic Director Steven Daigle

Though an unfortunate scheduling conflict prevented my attending this delightful company’s second annual symposium as I did last year, I

No need to mince words here, this is one of the very best movie-musical-to-stage adaptations, a model, in fact, of

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It is with great sadness that we, at the Operetta Research Center, have to report the death of Charles Kálmán.

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At the 18th edition of the Schönebecker Operettensommer there’s a brand new Maske in Blau to be seen. While the