Posts Tagged 'Light Opera of New York'

“The Pa! The Ma! And the Shah!”: Offenbach’s “Island of Tulipatan” As A “Persian Operatic Bouffonerie”

02/08/2019·1 comment·

The one-act l‘île de Tulipatan, written by Jacques Offenbach with his librettists Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru in 1868 for

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01/11/2018·1 comment·

Among the various US-American operetta companies, the Comic Opera Guild continues to draw international attention through recordings that offer a

Hot on the heels of LOONY’s Naughty Marietta only one week before, along came yet another Victor Herbert work, but

This most famous of Victor Herbert’s operettas, and arguably his best, received a classy salon concert performance the other night

We need to talk about Offenbach, seriously and right now. Is it a sign of our gender-queer times that of

The Light Opera of New York (LOONY) shifted gears this spring from its annual early American operetta – usually by

The title of this flavorsome concert mounted by LOONY on a seriously rainy Wednesday at the fabled Players Club was

LOONY (Light Opera of New York) raised its own bar by several notches with their latest production. For starters, although

This isn’t the first time this fearless little company has attempted a great big operetta that, by all rights, should

LOONY’s real season doesn’t get underway till 2014 when they’ll be doing full productions of Sigmund Romberg’s The New Moon