Operetta Research Center » Laurence Senelick http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 The Story of Julian Eltinge: America’s Greatest Female Impersonator http://operetta-research-center.org/story-julian-eltinge-americas-greatest-female-impersonator/ http://operetta-research-center.org/story-julian-eltinge-americas-greatest-female-impersonator/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:01:47 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25297 It’s almost a quarter of a century ago that Laurence Senelick published his book The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/story-julian-eltinge-americas-greatest-female-impersonator/feed/ 0 “Social Evil”: The Girards and Offenbach’s “Princess of Trebizonde” in Melbourne http://operetta-research-center.org/girards-offenbachs-princess-trebizonde-melbourne-court-case-social-evil/ http://operetta-research-center.org/girards-offenbachs-princess-trebizonde-melbourne-court-case-social-evil/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:42:46 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24975 Recently, Offenbach researchers have started looking a little beyond the usual boundaries of “established” source material, one of them is

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/girards-offenbachs-princess-trebizonde-melbourne-court-case-social-evil/feed/ 1 Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture: An Interview with Laurence Senelick http://operetta-research-center.org/jacques-offenbach-making-modern-culture-interview-prof-laurence-senelick/ http://operetta-research-center.org/jacques-offenbach-making-modern-culture-interview-prof-laurence-senelick/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:00:38 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=14602 At long last someone has written a brand new Offenbach book – in English. And what’s even better, it’s a

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/jacques-offenbach-making-modern-culture-interview-prof-laurence-senelick/feed/ 3 Stanislavsky and “The Mikado” http://operetta-research-center.org/stanislavsky-mikado-moscow-first-russian-production-laurence-senelick/ http://operetta-research-center.org/stanislavsky-mikado-moscow-first-russian-production-laurence-senelick/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:20:12 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24431 Operetta was one of the most successful forms of theatre to go transglobal in the 19th and early 20th century.

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/stanislavsky-mikado-moscow-first-russian-production-laurence-senelick/feed/ 3 Gilbert & Sullivan: Is Sexual Innuendo Imbedded in “HMS Pinafore”? http://operetta-research-center.org/sexual-innuendo-imbedded-h-m-s-pinafore/ http://operetta-research-center.org/sexual-innuendo-imbedded-h-m-s-pinafore/#comments Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:47:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24337 It is an accepted notion that Gilbert and Sullivan were careful to exclude anything in their comic operas that could

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/sexual-innuendo-imbedded-h-m-s-pinafore/feed/ 1 Offenbach and the Theatre Bouffe in Saint Petersburg, 1870-1878 http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-theatre-bouffe-saint-petersburg-1870-1878/ http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-theatre-bouffe-saint-petersburg-1870-1878/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:49:34 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24039 Offenbach was introduced to the Russian stage when a French company played La belle Hélène at the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-theatre-bouffe-saint-petersburg-1870-1878/feed/ 1 “The Grand Duke of Gerolstein”: A Milanese Byblow of the Grand Duchess http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/ http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:43:44 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23697 La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein was, arguably, Offenbach’s first truly transglobal success. It benefitted from opening during the Exposition universelle

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/feed/ 1 Arnold Bennett Discusses Operettas & Musicals: Journal Entries 1897-1928 http://operetta-research-center.org/arnold-bennett-journal-entries-1897-1928/ http://operetta-research-center.org/arnold-bennett-journal-entries-1897-1928/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:47:38 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=22202 The English author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) is best known as a novelist and playwright. He also kept a journal in

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/arnold-bennett-journal-entries-1897-1928/feed/ 0 The Jerusalem Opera Wants To Present Madcap Offenbach In The Middle East http://operetta-research-center.org/jerusalem-opera-want-present-offenbach-middle-east/ http://operetta-research-center.org/jerusalem-opera-want-present-offenbach-middle-east/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:28:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21715   When it comes to the Middle-East, there’s not an awful lot of operetta performance history that comes to mind.

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/jerusalem-opera-want-present-offenbach-middle-east/feed/ 0 New Books Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Offenbach’s Birth http://operetta-research-center.org/new-books-celebrating-200th-anniversary-offenbachs-birth/ http://operetta-research-center.org/new-books-celebrating-200th-anniversary-offenbachs-birth/#comments Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:12:28 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=20296 No one can really claim that there is not an abundance of exciting Offenbach literature that has been published since

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/new-books-celebrating-200th-anniversary-offenbachs-birth/feed/ 1 “Mr. Offenbach Writes To Us”: Letters To Le Figaro And Other Texts http://operetta-research-center.org/mr-offenbach-writes-us-letters-le-figaro-texts/ http://operetta-research-center.org/mr-offenbach-writes-us-letters-le-figaro-texts/#comments Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:18:39 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18370 In their September newsletter, The Jacques Offenbach Society alerts its readers to a new book edited by Jean-Claude Yon. It’s

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/mr-offenbach-writes-us-letters-le-figaro-texts/feed/ 0 Dangerous When Wet: Offenbach’s Rediscovered “Le Royaume de Neptune” From the 1874 “Orphée Aux Enfers” http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-rediscovered-underwater-ballet-le-royaume-de-neptune-1874-orphee-aux-enfers/ http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-rediscovered-underwater-ballet-le-royaume-de-neptune-1874-orphee-aux-enfers/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:21:39 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18228 When Germany’s ultra-conservative Offenbach crusader Peter Hawig – who in a recent Jacques Offenbach Society newsletter remarked that “tying” the

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