Extra ordinär? Das „Mozart“-Musical von Kunze/Levay in München
Regisseur Andreas Gergen scheitert im Prinzregententheater an einer zeitgemäßen Neudeutung von Michael Kunzes und Sylvester Levays Mozart!-Musical. Zunächst zum Positiven:
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“The Cambridge Companion to Operetta”: Taking A New Look At The Genre In English
It was about bloody time, you might say, that someone published a new English language reference book on the history
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“…was verloren ging”: A New Book About Operetta Before & After 1933
Im Jahr 2005 profilierte sich die Staatsoperette Dresden mit einer überregional vielbeachteten Konferenz, die den Titel Operette unterm Hakenkreuz trug.
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The First Sperm-Donor Operetta: How “Axel an der Himmelstür” Became “Liebespremiere” In 1943
The Hollywood spoof Axel an der Himmelstür, with music by Ralph Benatzky, premiered at the Theater an der Wien in
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The Gay Hussars, Or: Kálmán’s “Ein Herbstmanöver” At Theater Giessen
The unpretentious German city of Giessen has a population of 78,000 and boasts two fine buildings: the railway station and
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Alberto Spadolini: The Nude Spy & Dancer From “Die lustige Witwe” 1940
We recently ran an article on “Operetta in the Third Reich,” reporting on the new book of the same title
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Künneke’s “Die große Sünderin” In Leipzig: Bringing Back Aryan Operetta Today
You might recall that back in the 1990s a renewed interest in so called ‘degenerate’ operettas spread around the world.
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Barbara Denscher’s Victor Léon Biography & Matthias Kauffmann’s “Operette im Dritten Reich”
Has operetta research shifted gear? One could think so, considering that there are finally in-depth academic studies coming out that
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Operette untern Hakenkreuz
This interesting book contains 13 papers by different authors, delivered in symposium at the Dresden Staatsoperette (the one subsidized theatre
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