Am 1. Januar 2016 wird das kommerziell erfolgreiche Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker im Großen „goldenen“ Saal des Musikvereinsals „75-jähriges Jubiläum“
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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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This meticulous reconstruction of composer Joseph Rumshinsky’s 1923 operetta Di Goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) may well be the most
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Today, soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf would have celebrated her 100th birthday. That’s a perfect occasion to remember her enormous recorded legacy,
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Yes, there’s a new book on Oscar Straus, that often over-looked composer of Ein Walzertraum but also of Die lustigen
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It seems that Wiener Blut is quite the show-of-the-moment. The 1899 operetta is featured in the new publication of the
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There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Johann Strauss’s final work for the stage, the ballet Aschenbrödel. Most of
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You might have heard of the – highly informative and entertaining – blog Barihunks. It’s dedicated to hunky baritones who
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The poster might not look particularly innovative, but the Quickchange Company in the Swiss town of Zug will present “Operetta
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It’s kind of special: Philipp Harnoncourt (yes, the son of the other Harnoncourt) is staging Der Zigeunerbaron at Schloss Haindorf
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There is no shortage of Eine Nacht in Venedig recordings. Some of them are all-time classics, such as the Elisabeth
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To say that I was surprised would be putting it mildly. Here I was, at the opening of the grand
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Cagliostro in Wien … Doesn’t ring a bell? It’s the 1875 operetta Johann Strauss Jr. wrote together with Richard Genée
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If you live in Germany and are interested in classical music, you probably know the broschure concerti. They have a
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At the 2015 edition of Tanz-Signale in Vienna, devoted to Johann Strauss and his librettist Victor Léon, Kevin Clarke talked
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This is the lecture Prof. Hans-Dieter Roser gave in the Festsaal of the Vienna town hall, as part of the
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There was a whiff of fresh air in the room at the Tanz-Signale 2015. The Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung had
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“I had a dream” – and, yes, it was “a beautiful dream”; right in the middle of a performance of
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You all know that the Congress of Vienna in 1815 is the historical backdrop to quite a few famous operettas
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It is a grand title, for sure: The Imperial Vienna Orchestra! Yes, wow. It is as “Kakanian” as you can
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If you know your operetta history, you will be aware of the fact that Johann Strauss Jr. was the most
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As the author of Die Fledermaus (1874) and a whole series of other famous Strauss operettas, Richard Genée is not
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Yes, we all know that conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt is one of the pioneers of the Early Music Movement. Together with
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Born in Graz to theatrical parents, Geistinger first went on the stage as a child and had an early exposure
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Opera in the UK doesn’t only happen in big London theatres with rob-the-bank ticket prices. All over the country there
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Finally, there are images of the new Staatsoperette Dresden. It will be situated in Kraftwerk Mitte. And for the first
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It certainly is a little unusual: a ballet version by Roland Petit of the Johann Strauss classic Die Fledermaus. Filmed
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Next week, the Ohio Light Opera is starting its 36th season – with 7 (in writing: seven!) productions on offer
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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will present a concert version of Die Fledermaus on July 6, at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium.
What became eventually known as “operetta” or “opérette” didn’t start its life under that name. The earliest works of the
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“Gender Studies” are something on everyone’s lips these days. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the operetta world has hardly taken note of
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The Wien Museum Karlsplatz will open a new exhibition entitled Experiment Metropole on 5 May, 2014. It will focus on
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Now, here’s a topic for a book publication to make our operetta hearts beat faster: Ein Bild von einem Mann
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The greatest theatrical success of composer Johann Strauss, and the most internationally enduring of all 19th-century Viennese Operetten — the
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The eighth in Strauss’s list of Operetten, Der lustige Krieg followed behind the disastrous Blindekuh and the rather more successful
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Korngold und die Operette – das ist ein faszinierendes Thema, weil es den Komponisten im Spannungsfeld von ideologischen Widersprüchen der
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