Daddy Issues At Ohio Light Opera: How Could “Constructive” Critcism Work With Lehár’s “Cloclo”?
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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Lehár’s “Cloclo” On DVD: A 2018 Live Performance From Ohio Light Opera
A performance of Lehár’s Clo-Clo from the Ohio Light Opera – filmed live at the theater in Wooster – has
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“Kunst der Oberfläche. Operette zwischen Bravour und Banalität”
Unter ihrem Intendanten Barrie Kosky hat die Komische Oper Berlin seit 2012 einen eigenen, unverwechselbaren Operettenstil gefunden: sehr bunt und
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Carita von Horst (1864-1935): The Baroness Who Composed “Gentleman Jack” And Bamboozled Hitler
How many female operetta composers can you name? Here is one who was also a baroness, no less. Her operetta
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Paul Abraham’s “Dschainah – Das Mädchen aus dem Tanzhaus” Revived After 84 Years
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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Bringing Back Abraham: “Märchen Im Grand Hotel” At Staatstheater Hannover
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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Operetta Between The Two World Wars: International Musicological Symposium In Ljubljana
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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Ábrahám’s “Roxy und ihr Wunderteam” At Komische Oper Berlin: Watch The Live-Stream
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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Thank You For The Music! Duophon Records Founder Alfred Wagner Has Died
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 2019 Season At The Lehár Festival In Bad Ischl: “Im weißen Rössl” & More
The Ischl Lehár Festival has announced what you may expect in 2019 – with the new artistic director Thomas Enzinger.
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Nils Grosch & Carolin Stahrenberg: “Im weißen Rössl. Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven”
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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Berlin’s Entertainment Industry In The 1920s As Seen By Willy Römer & On Sheet Music Covers
Tea might be the only simple pleasure left to us, as Oscar Wilde once remarked. But you need to be
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‘Babylon Berlin’: A Philharmonic Discourse with Florian Illies, Manfred Görtemaker And Tilman Krause
Ah yes, the Weimar Republic. Again? While the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin is currently showing a marvelous exhibition on
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Ábrahám’s “Märchen im Grand-Hotel” In Mainz
After having had great success in Berlin with three operettas on a very grand scale – Viktoria und ihr Husar
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Everyone’s Dancing The Charleston Tonight: “Die Herzogin von Chicago” in Leipzig
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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Updating “Die Csardasfürstin” For Vienna: Peter Lund’s New Volksoper Production
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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Ein Interview mit Henning Hagedorn über die Rekonstruktion (und das Spielen) von Ábraháms Zentralpartituren
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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“Die Blume von Hawaii” beim Lehár-Festival Bad Ischl. Oder: Jonny als alter ego Pál Ábraháms?
Lehár Festival Bad Ischl 2018. Das Konzert- und Kongresshaus gleicht einem Bienenstock, Publikum strömt herbei während das Ensemble sich einstimmt
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“Die Blume von Hawaii” At Theater für Niedersachsen: Florian Ziemen Conducts
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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Selling Operetta To The Next Generation: Felix Seiler And Danny Costello Talk About “Die Blume von Hawaii”
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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Revisiting Honolulu: “Die Blume von Hawaii” With Students of the Hochschule für Musik In Osnabrück
We all have our favorite memories – our ‘madeleine moment’ that changed our world forever. For me, this moment occurred
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“Der Vetter aus Dingsda” At Moosegg Open-Air Festival 2018
After a successful 2017 season, the team working with young Emmental director Simon Burkhalter is once again relying on last
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“Roxy und ihr Wunderteam”: Abraham’s Football Operetta Finally Comes To Berlin
Why did it take so long, you might ask? And was it worth waiting all this time? In the case
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Abraham’s “Ball im Savoy” In Koblenz: No Lavish Sets But SS Officers
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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Kálmán’s “Herzogin von Chicago” At The Deutsches Theater Munich
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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The Emmerich Kalman Research Center. Plus: Yvonne Kalman’s 80th Birthday Gala
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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Barbara Denscher’s Victor Léon Biography & Matthias Kauffmann’s “Operette im Dritten Reich”
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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A History Of Popular Musical Theater In Dresden, 1844 Until Today
The Staatsoperette Dresden has been – for many years – one of the few theaters in Germany, before and after
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Tenor Endrik Wottrich Dead At 53
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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Offenbach’s “Ritter Blaubart” Returns: The New Operetta Season At Komische Oper
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’s “Lady Hamilton” In Dessau
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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Kalman’s “Zirkusprinzessin” At The Volksoper Wien
The Vienna Volksoper’s new staging – their first since 1988 – of Die Zirkusprinzessin is unashamedly old-fashioned – and there’s
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Kalman’s “Die Bajadere”: Radio Recording From Cologne
With Die Bajadere, Emmerich Kalman embarked on a new path as a composer in 1921: he changed his librettist team
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“Brutal Cultural Politics”: Dagmar Schellenberger Kicked Out Of Mörbisch Festival
In a way you could see it coming: the Seefestpiele Mörbisch tried breaking away from the stuffy (but much beloved)
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A New Homoerotic “Vetter aus Dingsda” In Stralsund
The Theater Vorpommern / Haus Stralsund will open its new season with Künneke’s Der Vetter aus Dingsda on October 8.
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“Viktoria und ihr Husar”: The 2016 Cast Album From Mörbisch
Paul Abraham’s Viktoria und ihr Husar conquered the German language operetta scene in 1930 – and pretty much swept away
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