Revisting “Au Dahomey” (1892). Or: A Blackface King Béhazin?
I came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the
read moreI came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the
read moreA new recording from Bru Zane? After their tremendous job with La Fille de Madame Angot, I am all agog.
read moreThree years and eight major shows after the splenditious production of Le Roi Carotte, Offenbach returned to the world of
read moreJean Gilbert’s operetta with the original libretto by Georg Okonkowski premiered on 22 November 1912 at Deutsches Operettentheater, Hamburg, as
read moreCarl [Rudolf Michael] Weinberger was born in Vienna on 3 April, 1861, and he died there on 1 November, 1939.
read moreI have just been on a very, very happy trip down memory boulevard. For a couple of years of my
read moreThis isn’t an obituary. No facts. I never met Dave, though we have been in touch for half a century.
read moreThe original edition of Kurt Gänzl’s The Musical came out in 1997, as a “Concise History” published by Northeastern University
read moreThis operette in 3 acts by F Zell is based on the comédie-vaudeville Nanon, Ninon et Madame de Maintenon by
read moreI feel very honoured and flattered to have been asked to write about the most important book to be written
read moreOnce upon a time, not so very long ago, a young lady radio or TV ‘interviewer’ asked me: what was
read moreThe students of Leipzig’s Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule had planned to put on Offenbach’sUn Mari à la Porte / Ein
read moreThe most successful stage musical work of Reynaldo Hahn, Ciboulette was written to a text by two of the most
read moreVermutlich kennen Fans der Mel-Brooks-Filme den ekstatischen Liebesschrei „A Sweet Mystery of Life“ besser als die meisten Operettenfans hierzulande. Denn
read moreI was surprised, and delighted, to hear that the Staatsoperette Dresden are to give an all-“Britisch” concert, taking in a
read moreI’m the oldest standing member of the Operetta Research Center. I was one of the fairies who presided at its
read moreThe sky is blue, the sun is shining, the waves are tinkling on the shore a hundred metres from me
read moreThe history of Die lustige Witwe has fascinated us, here at the Operetta Research Center, immensely over the past months.
read moreHervé’s second attempt, after Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1866), to produce a full-length burlesque opérette to challenge the
read moreHervé’s 1867 opéra bouffe L’œil crevé (literally “The pierced eye” or “It hit me right in the eye”) was first
read moreThe Berlin based “collective for contemporary operette*” which calls itself Tutti d*Amore presented their take on Offenbach’s 1857 one-acter Vent-du-soir
read moreBorn in Caracas, Venezuela, on 9 August, 1874, Reynaldo Hahn was the elegant, soigné composer whose work for the French
read moreThis Musical triumviretta in 1 act was adapted from J Maddison Morton’s farce Box and Cox by F C Burnand,
read moreI’m an old conservative. I was ‘a little con-ser-va-tive’ (as opposed to a ‘little li-ber-al’) from the moment I was
read moreYesterday, a surprising book arrived on my desk: Popular Music Theatre Under Socialism. I guessed straight away that we weren’t
read moreThis picture looked to me like a rather nice American girlie entertainment from the Twenties. Wonder what it is, thought
read moreWhen you ‘live’ in a certain ‘world’ – in my case, that of the 19th century musical theatre – you
read moreIvan Caryll was the principal composer and conductor for the heyday of the Gaiety musical comedy who encouraged the development
read moreA burlesque of Longfellow’s poem of the same name, the extravaganza Evangeline followed the trials and tribulations of its heroine
read moreAfter beginning her singing career as a teenager in the chorus of a New York revue, Miss MacDonald (born in
read moreA child of mysterious origins (she was rumoured, when fame came, to have been the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat
read moreHarvard-educated Henry Wilson Savage was born in New Durham (New Hampshire) on 21 March 1859 and well established as a
read moreA descendant of the painter Henry Inman, Miss Jackson was born in New York on 3 February 1877. She studied
read moreDonald Brian was the bright-eyed and boyish star of more than 20 years of Broadway operettas and musicals, among them the
read moreJoseph Coyne was a light comedy actor-who-sings who moved from silly-ass rôles in his native America to stardom as Britain’s
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