Posts Tagged 'Marie Geistinger'

“Indigo und die 40 Räuber“: Gratuitous Nudity at Amtshaus Hietzing?

When Johann Strauss presented his first operetta Indigo und die 40 Räuber in 1871 – as a Thousand-and-One-Nights-spectacle written with

05/04/2020·1 comment·

With all this free time at home right now I’ve started working my way through various DVD boxes I’ve had

In Print

It is one of the more amazing developments of recent years that suddenly “entertainment” is included in major exhibitions dealing

On Screen

03/05/2019·1 comment·

Finally – and that’s really the only appropriate word for it: finally the updated 1950s movie version of Die Fledermaus,

02/01/2017·1 comment·

Offenbach’s glorious sex-and-social-conventions farce Barbe-bleue was a huge hit in Paris and Vienna back in the 1860s, when Hortense Schneider

25/03/2015·1 comment·

This is the lecture Prof. Hans-Dieter Roser gave in the Festsaal of the Vienna town hall, as part of the

‘Die fesche Pepi’ – ‘Jolly Josie’ – was one of the most popular and famous stars of the Viennese musical

Born in Graz to theatrical parents, Geistinger first went on the stage as a child and had an early exposure

What became eventually known as “operetta” or “opérette” didn’t start its life under that name. The earliest works of the

Millöcker’s most successful Operette and, indeed, one of the very few 19th-century Viennese pieces which do not have the fashionable

After their enormous success with La Belle Hélène at the Théâtre des Variétés, the Meilhac-Halévy-Offenbach team followed up with a