For 2019, the Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung (WISF) is offering a three-day operetta ‘special‘ that‘s entitled Zur Geburt der Wiener
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The Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich celebrates the 200th birthday of Jacques Offenbach with a performance of two rarities: Oyayaye, ou
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Let’s start this review backwards, shall we? The last sentence in Peter Hawig’s new book for the Offenbach bicentenary is:
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Originally produced at Baden-Baden during the 1869 summer season, with the young Mdlle Périer in its principal travesty rôle, La
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To mark the occasion, the city of Cologne and the local Gürzenich Orchestra inaugurate the festivities for Offenbach’s 200th birthday
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Sometimes you read an operetta essay that deeply disturbs you – not because it is badly written or full of
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For the 2019 Offenbach celebrations the city of Cologne has set up a special committee to organize an “Offenbach Year”
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No, it wasn’t public, and yes, it was only a one-off performance with a preceding dress rehearsal. There were invited
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Große Ereignisse werfen ihre Schatten voraus, und so sind im Vorfeld des 200. Offenbach-Geburtstags 2019 mehrere neue Bücher auf den
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“The Offenbach bi-centenary is being virtually ignored by opera companies in the United Kingdom, so all credit to the Royal
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They now call themselves “Bouffes de Bru Zane,” and they are taking up the operetta torch at the Théâtre Marigny
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When I first heard of this book I got really excited: the famous S. Fischer publishing house would release a
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Eine der bekanntesten und weit verbreiteten Gavotten ist die „Stephanie-Gavotte“, op. 312 von Alfons Czibulka. Diese wurde 1880 der Prinzessin
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Among the various US-American operetta companies, the Comic Opera Guild continues to draw international attention through recordings that offer a
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So here it is, finally: the live broadcast of Marc Minkowski’s performance of La Périchole with his Les Musiciens du
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Before the dawn of the phonographic era and before iTunes came along you had to either go to the theater
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In his 2 volume biography Emily Soldene: In Search of a Singer Kurt Gänzl chronicles the initial success of opéra
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In 1980, the classical music world marked the 100th anniversary of Jacques Offenbach’s death. And for this greatest of ‘life
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My last post and its original five pictures, borrowed from the gold mines of Blois, included four taken from the
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It’s this time of year when theaters around Germany and Austria are advertising their upcoming productions for the 2018/19 season.
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It has been a splendid winter. Three new musical-theatre works – one English, two French – have crossed my desk,
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Many years ago, when I was collecting illustrations for my musico-theatrical books, I haunted e-bay. Bought something weekly. But then
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Kurt Gänzl is no stranger to readers of these pages. As the author of The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre
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It’s that time of year again when theaters release their programs for next season. One of the most striking programs
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Next year the world will celebrate the 200th birthday of Jacques Offenbach. After having dedicated themselves to Hervé and his
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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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Yes, it was a good idea to bring back Offenbach’s murderous Barbe-Bleue to Berlin at Komische Oper where, you will
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Daniel Defoe’s shipwrecked hero (1719) and his man Friday seem to have made their first appearance on the musical stage
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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 sensational success of Jacques Offenbach in Second Empire Paris and internationally, in the 19th century, has many reasons. One
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When we talk about popular musical theater our modern focus is mostly on the ‘artistic’ values of individual shows, e.g.
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It’s an unusual coupling, to say the very least: Anneliese Rothenberger and Max Hansen in one recording? The hairspray-star of
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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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The Staatsoperette Dresden has recently moved into a new, much-needed, purpose built theatre in the centre of the city. The
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For many operetta fans, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underword is the masterpiece with which it all began, back in 1858.
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