Operetta Research Center » George Gershwin

Ohio Light Opera 2025 – A Survey of the Highlights

kevin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:46:14 +0000

Where else but at the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster could you find such a wonderfully varied season of musicals

kevin — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:50:08 +0000

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

kevin — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 13:20:34 +0000

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

kevin — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:47:38 +0000

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

kevin — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:48:14 +0000

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

kevin — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:19:41 +0000

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

kevin — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 14:38:46 +0000

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

kevin — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:58:04 +0000

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

kevin — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:46:19 +0000

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

kevin — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:52:30 +0000

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

kevin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:38:40 +0000

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

kevin — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:53:18 +0000

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