Okay, Munich has the Gärtnerplatztheater and thus a center of operetta “maintenance” in Germany which competes with Staatsoperette Dresden, Musikalische
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When I visited Tallinn in 2016 and saw that they were playing Ball im Savoy at the Estonian National Opera,
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When the Shakespeare adaptation Swingin‘ the Dream opened on Broadway in 1939 it followed Erik Charell’s earlier XXL-sized Broadway hit
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One of the things that irritates me about Richard Traubner’s book Operetta: A Theatrical History is the way he dismisses
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After rumors had already started circulating, it’s now official: Komische Oper Berlin has cancelled its live stream of Paul Abraham’s
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When I saw the news today that Gorki Theater Berlin will stream one of the greatest operetta productions I have
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Yeehaw! Komische Oper Berlin has finally awoken from its Sleeping Beauty Corona mode; the company has decided to offer something
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Putting on Eduard Künneke’s 1920 hit Der Vetter aus Dingsda seemed like a good idea in times of Corona restrictions:
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The future of operetta in Vienna is female: Lotte de Beer was presented this week as new artistic director of
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The other day I had a long transatlantic phone conversation with an US-American operetta researcher I greatly admire for his
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A performance of Lehár’s Clo-Clo from the Ohio Light Opera – filmed live at the theater in Wooster – has
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Unter ihrem Intendanten Barrie Kosky hat die Komische Oper Berlin seit 2012 einen eigenen, unverwechselbaren Operettenstil gefunden: sehr bunt und
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How many female operetta composers can you name? Here is one who was also a baroness, no less. Her operetta
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If expectations are exceptionally high for a Paul Abraham operetta at Komische Oper Berlin that’s because, in the past, the
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It’s hard to believe, but this is actually only the second fully staged production of Paul Abraham’s Märchen im Grand
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The staging of musical-dramatic works in the late nineteenth century was dominated by operetta, which effectively dictated the programmes of
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At Komische Oper Berlin, Paul Ábrahám’s ‘last’ operetta premiered in a new production by Stefan Huber, with a newly arranged
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It’s with great sadness that we heard about the death of Alfred Wagner this morning. He was the man behind
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The Ischl Lehár Festival has announced what you may expect in 2019 – with the new artistic director Thomas Enzinger.
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Over the past twenty years, German-speaking operetta has been enjoying a revival, especially Berlin operettas of the Weimar Republic by
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Tea might be the only simple pleasure left to us, as Oscar Wilde once remarked. But you need to be
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Ah yes, the Weimar Republic. Again? While the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin is currently showing a marvelous exhibition on
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After having had great success in Berlin with three operettas on a very grand scale – Viktoria und ihr Husar
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On Saturday, October 20, exactly 90 years after its world premiere, the curtain will rise on Emmerich Kálmán’s Die Herzogin
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It can be exciting to re-imagine and re-interpret beloved shows: we are witnessing this, again and again, in modern musical
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Herr Hagedorn, seit Sie mit Ihrem Kollegen Matthias Grimminger angefangen haben für den WDR und die dortige Ábrahám-Aufführungsserie Partituren von
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Lehár Festival Bad Ischl 2018. Das Konzert- und Kongresshaus gleicht einem Bienenstock, Publikum strömt herbei während das Ensemble sich einstimmt
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So it was off to Waikiki and South Sea breezes, again. I had a chance to see Paul Abraham’s glorious
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This spring, stage director Felix Seiler and choreographer Danny Costello staged Paul Abraham’s Die Blume von Hawaii with students in
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We all have our favorite memories – our ‘madeleine moment’ that changed our world forever. For me, this moment occurred
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After a successful 2017 season, the team working with young Emmental director Simon Burkhalter is once again relying on last
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Why did it take so long, you might ask? And was it worth waiting all this time? In the case
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Having hugely enjoyed Barrie Kosky’s 2013 exuberant production of Abraham’s Ball im Savoy several times, I was interested to see
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I have just seen the much-heralded Budapest Operetta Theatre’s re-imagining of Kálmán’s 1928 musical mashup, Die Herzogin von Chicago, at
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It was a dazzling party: Yvonne Kalman celebrated her 80th birthday last week-end in Budapest as a big gala event,
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Has operetta research shifted gear? One could think so, considering that there are finally in-depth academic studies coming out that
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