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Ushering in a New Era: “Dollarprinzessin” at Musikalische Komödie Leipzig

kevin — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:32:51 +0000

It’s a new dawn in Leipzig. The opera company has a new director, Tobias Wolff, who opened his first season

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“Dollarprinzessin”: First Productions At Leipzig Opera Under Tobias Wolff

kevin — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:08:00 +0000

Leipzig Opera has begun the exciting countdown to the first new productions under its new General Director, Tobias Wolff, and

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A Trip Back To The 1920s: Ben Zimmermann’s “Höchste Eisenbahn“ Album

kevin — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:37:10 +0000

This CD entitled Höchste Eisenbahn by actor Ben Zimmermann and pianist Mark McNeill is called a „Doku Revue der Goldenen

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“I Would Like To See More Women Writing About Operetta”: Micaela Baranello Discusses Her Book “The Operetta Empire”

kevin — Sat, 29 May 2021 09:25:35 +0000

The US-American musicologist Micaela Baranello joined the Department of Music at the University of Arkansas in 2017 and has recently

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Leo Fall’s “Die Rose von Stambul”: What About The Hijab Controversy?

kevin — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:27:49 +0000

This new recording starts overwhelmingly: with gongs, whole tone scales, rhythmic oriental rattling, bouncing horn passages à la Richard Strauss.

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Lily Elsie (1886-1962): Becoming “The Most Photographed Woman In The World”

kevin — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 08:05:20 +0000

A child of mysterious origins (she was rumoured, when fame came, to have been the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat

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And Here’s Broadway’s First Danilo in “The Merry Widow”: Donald Brian (1877-1948)

kevin — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:53:03 +0000

Donald Brian was the bright-eyed and boyish star of more than 20 years of Broadway operettas and musicals, among them the

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A New “Eine Nacht in Venedig” From Oper Graz On CPO

kevin — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:34:10 +0000

What grabbed my immediate attention with this new Eine Nacht in Venedig on cpo are the names on the cover:

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Colonialism & Operetta. Or: What To Do With Leo Fall’s “Die Rose von Stambul”

kevin — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:07:55 +0000

At the end of March 2020, the Nationaltheater Weimar will host an international conference entitled “Musiktheater und Kolonialismus,” i.e. musical

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Operetta Between The Two World Wars: International Musicological Symposium In Ljubljana

kevin — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:11:09 +0000

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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“…was verloren ging”: A New Book About Operetta Before & After 1933

kevin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:04:57 +0000

Im Jahr 2005 profilierte sich die Staatsoperette Dresden mit einer überregional vielbeachteten Konferenz, die den Titel Operette unterm Hakenkreuz trug.

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A New “Madame Pompadour” At Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

kevin — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:33:41 +0000

The 1922 Madame Pompadour is not only one of Leo Fall’s last stage works (he died in 1925), it is

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