Posts Tagged 'John Groves'

“Voici le sabre de mon père”: Offenbach’s “Grand Duchess” In Kassel

The industrial city of Kassel in middle-Germany boasts a modern, superbly designed 900 seat theatre with a large stage and

The nomadic company of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz has staged a rare, highly successful and most enjoyable revival of Kalman’s 1917

Considering the continuing number of revivals of Im weißen Rössl one could be forgiven for thinking that Benatzky composed nothing

Eduard Künneke (1885-1953) has been described by Kurt Ganzl as “the most appreciable German composer for the mid-20th-century musical stage”;

The Vienna Volksoper’s new staging – their first since 1988 – of Die Zirkusprinzessin is unashamedly old-fashioned – and there’s

I can think of only two reasons for visiting the post-industrial city of Duisburg: firstly to hear the gorgeously expressive

Romberg’s Broadway operettas have not been revived professionally in the UK since matinee idol John Hanson – he of the

22/11/2016·1 comment·

Strolling westwards from the Bundestag, across the parkland which occupies much of this part of Berlin, one would be forgiven

To tell the truth: Im weißen Rössl at the Neustrelitz open air operetta festival was fascinating! For a start, I

09/07/2016·1 comment·

Paul Abraham’s 1931 revue-operetta Die Blume von Hawaii has recently been give a highly enjoyable new production at Theatre Pforzheim,