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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The Staatsoperette Dresden has been – for many years – one of the few theaters in Germany, before and after
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Most operetta fans will remember Berlin-based tenor Endrik Wottrich because he sings the male lead in Kalman’s Die Herzogin von
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Berlin’s Komische Oper and its artistic director Barrie Kosky are always good for a surprise, most certainly when it comes
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Eduard Künneke (1885-1953) has been described by Kurt Ganzl as “the most appreciable German composer for the mid-20th-century musical stage”;
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The Vienna Volksoper’s new staging – their first since 1988 – of Die Zirkusprinzessin is unashamedly old-fashioned – and there’s
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With Die Bajadere, Emmerich Kalman embarked on a new path as a composer in 1921: he changed his librettist team
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In a way you could see it coming: the Seefestpiele Mörbisch tried breaking away from the stuffy (but much beloved)
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The Theater Vorpommern / Haus Stralsund will open its new season with Künneke’s Der Vetter aus Dingsda on October 8.
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Paul Abraham’s Viktoria und ihr Husar conquered the German language operetta scene in 1930 – and pretty much swept away
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Was für ein Jammer, dass die 1920er Jahre vorbei sind. Und was für ein Jammer, dass Paul Abrahams Operetten noch
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Die erste moderne Ábrahám-Aufnahme auf Basis einer rekonstruierten Originalpartitur von Hagedorn & Grimminger: mit einer elegischen Dagmar Schellenberger in der
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What is arguably Paul Abraham’s musically strongest operetta, Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930), has been given a new production by
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I recommend booking travel tickets now for Budapest – to arrive before June 9, 2016. That’s the date of the
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Wenn man seine Dissertation über ein Werk wie Die Herzogin von Chicago geschrieben hat, wenn man all die Aufnahmen von
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Recently, ORCA received a generous donation in the form of various Gilbert & Sullivan materials that a researcher in the
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Will he “come back”? Will Emmerich Kalman succeed in duplicating the tremendous success of his Countess Maritza, which has been
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Am 12. März 1938 nachmittags hatten sich in der Wohnung des Dramaturgen und Regisseurs Kurt Hellmer in Naschmarktnähe ein paar
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Yes, it comes as a bit of a surprise to hear Yvonne Kálmán – of all people – say about
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Ever since conductor Florian Ziemen came to Gießen, the opera house there has presented some unusual operetta rediscovery projects: Gustav
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The Komische Oper Berlin – together with researchers Bettina Brandl-Risi and Clemens Risi – has put together a highly diverse
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Is it just my imagination, or is there a noticeable increase in Abraham productions lately? While the Komische Oper Berlin
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The operetta festival of Mörbisch, in Austria, had already announced its title for 2016: Paul Abraham’s Viktoria und ihr Husar,
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As everyone knows, the Ohio Light Opera is one of the prime performance venues for lesser known works of Emmerich
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There is Spoliansky in the air, it seems. And it is certainly high time that this unique composer is rediscovered.
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In Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, the Theater der Altmark will present a new production of Fred Raymond’s Maske in Blau. It’s
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You could call it the battle of the biographers. Who will be first? Who will be better? Who will have
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Hold your breath: There’s going to be an „interdisciplinary symposium“ on White Horse Inn, examining „new cultural-historical perspectives 1930-2015.“ When?
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You have to hand it to the Americans. They certainly know how to make their classics sound fresh and funky,
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