Fly Me To The Moon: Kurt Kurt Gänzl reviews the new “Le Voyage dans la lune”
A new recording from Bru Zane? After their tremendous job with La Fille de Madame Angot, I am all agog.
read moreA new recording from Bru Zane? After their tremendous job with La Fille de Madame Angot, I am all agog.
read moreThree years and eight major shows after the splenditious production of Le Roi Carotte, Offenbach returned to the world of
read more“Music in Society and Culture” 1789-1914 we are informed on the cover of this new book. And then: “Following the
read moreHere’s great news: a new book on Offenbach is out! It is entitled Offenbach, Composer of Zarzuelas and has been
read moreQuo vadis, Komische Oper? That’s what many have been wondering. How will the new artistic directors continue the now world-famous
read moreSo, now we know what Lotte de Beer as the new artistic director of the Volksoper in Vienna had up
read moreAfter a very (very!) long wait, Barrie Kosky’s vision of Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers has finally arrived at Berlin’s Komische
read moreIn the latest newsletter of the Jacques Offenbach Society (No. 98), there is a reprint of the full Meilhac &
read moreThe world of science fiction is somewhat underexplored when it comes to operetta. Even though Offenbach famously wrote Le voyage
read moreThe students of Leipzig’s Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule had planned to put on Offenbach’sUn Mari à la Porte / Ein
read moreWhat if Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, the most famous German language operetta, had been performed incomplete for the last
read moreOpera della Luna, under the artistic direction of Jeff Clarke, has built a well-deserved reputation for staging inventive productions of
read moreWith a title like Die Antisemiten (The Antisemites) attached to a “Grand Opera” you have the immediate attention of most
read moreLaurent Pelly’s celebrated production of Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue from the Opéra de Lyon has finally arrived on DVD. It offers Yann
read moreThe new intendant of the “Festspiele im Schlossgarten” in Neustrelitz – one and a half hours north of Berlin –
read moreIn the midst of Meilhac, Halévy and Offenbach’s dazzling series of successes with the earliest of their famous opéras-bouffes –
read moreThe various ‘lockdowns’ that we, in the UK, have lived under for the last 18 months have meant that several productions
read moreOf course he wasn’t going to present his last season as intendant of Komische Oper Berlin via Zoom or only
read morePolitiksatiren können ganz wunderbar als Musical oder Operette funktionieren, wie nicht nur Jacques Offenbach im 19. Jahrhundert immer wieder gezeigt
read moreWhen the invitation from Palazzetto Bru Zane arrived, to fly to Paris and attend a performance of Hervé’s V’lan dans
read moreHervé’s second attempt, after Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1866), to produce a full-length burlesque opérette to challenge the
read moreDue to Corona, Landesbühnen Sachsen in Germany put on two small scale one-acters last year: Offenbach’s The Island of Tulipatan
read moreRejoice greatly! There’s another big English language book on operetta, following last year’s Cambridge Companion to Operetta. This new publication
read moreWhen it comes to the Middle-East, there’s not an awful lot of operetta performance history that comes to mind.
read moreDie Operette ist in noch stärkerem Maße als die Oper ein internationales Phänomen. Die Bühnenwerke von Jacques Offenbach werden ebenso
read moreThe Berlin based “collective for contemporary operette*” which calls itself Tutti d*Amore presented their take on Offenbach’s 1857 one-acter Vent-du-soir
read moreZum Offenbach-Jubiläum 2019 spielten die Salzburger Festspiele erstmals eine Offenbach-Operette und übertrugen die Regie Barrie Kosky. Leider gaben sie ihm
read moreThis Musical triumviretta in 1 act was adapted from J Maddison Morton’s farce Box and Cox by F C Burnand,
read moreIt seems that the operetta scene is finally awaking to the possibilities of the internet as a chance to overcome
read moreConductor Georges Prêtre is generally considered one of the best interpreters of French music, and the list of famous recordings
read moreFrom 14 October onwards the Fundación Juan March is presenting a special program dedicated to Jacques Offenbach. The series of
read moreHarvard-educated Henry Wilson Savage was born in New Durham (New Hampshire) on 21 March 1859 and well established as a
read moreA descendant of the painter Henry Inman, Miss Jackson was born in New York on 3 February 1877. She studied
read moreHas the long waiting finally come to an end, is post-Corona operetta back? After the somewhat problematic “Jewish and Gay”
read moreToday I got asked, for the umpteenth time, ‘what was the first American musical?’ Well, all those three qualifications narrow
read more“344 Menschen, that‘s besser wie nix!” That’s what intendant Barrie Kosky said when he presented his brand new schedule for
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