Operetta Research Center » Marie Geistinger

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

kevin — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:55:17 +0000

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

kevin — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:03:35 +0000

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

kevin — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:38:02 +0000

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

kevin — Fri, 03 May 2019 21:48:04 +0000

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

kevin — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:15:04 +0000

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

kevin — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:10:32 +0000

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

kevin — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:45:04 +0000

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

kevin — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:59:17 +0000

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

kevin — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:17:13 +0000

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

kevin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:01:29 +0000

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

kevin — Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:48:32 +0000

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