Ersan Mondtag’s Over-The-Top Gay Production Of “Der Silbersee”
Kurt Weill’s “Wintermärchen” Der Silbersee is not exactly an operetta, more of a fairy tale “with music” that tells the
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Charell’s “Casanova” & Spoliansky’s “Zwei Krawatten“ Come To Staatsoperette Dresden
Using the famous line “Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau,” the artistic director of Staatsoperette Dresden, Kathrin Kondaurow, has presented her
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Apocalypse Now: Tutti D*Amore Presents “Magna Mater” As a Mashup Of “Schöne Galathée” & “Lysistrata”
The “tuttis” are at their exercise again, you might say. The Berlin Collective for Contemporary Operetta is presenting their queer-feminist
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Mischa Spoliansky’s “Das Haus dazwischen” (1932) Returns To Berlin For The First Time
More Mischa Spoliansky? Yeah! The queer operetta collective tutti d*amore and Acker Stadt Palast Berlin are planning to bring back
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Rediscovering “Das Haus dazwischen” By Spoliansky & Schiffer After 90 Years
On 24 August 1932 the newspaper Berliner Börsen-Courier reported that “this morning the well known revue poet Marcellus Schiffer was
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Big Bang Moments: Martin Mitterrutzner Sings Tenor Hits Of The 1930s
The repertoire Tyrolean tenor Martin Mitterrutzner presents on his new album Heut’ ist der schönste Tag was made popular in
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Gorki Theater Streams “Alles Schwindel” With English Subtitles For Christmas
When I saw the news today that Gorki Theater Berlin will stream one of the greatest operetta productions I have
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“One Long Gender-Bender”: Berlin’s Queer Operetta Revolution In The Years 2010-2020
The Drama Review (TDR) is planning a special issue on the developments in the German theater scene from 2010 to
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90 Years Ago “Der blaue Engel” Premiered – With Operetta Star Marlene Dietrich
Today, 90 years ago on 1 April 1930, the famous film Der blaue Engel premiered in Berlin’s Gloria Palace. It
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The Walking Dead? “Operetta Made In Austria” With Ildiko Raimondi and Herbert Lippert
It’s a pretty grand claim to make: “With their multi-media stage show Operetta Made in Austria stage stars Ildiko Raimondi
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‘Babylon Berlin’: A Philharmonic Discourse with Florian Illies, Manfred Görtemaker And Tilman Krause
Ah yes, the Weimar Republic. Again? While the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin is currently showing a marvelous exhibition on
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Spoliansky’s “Alles Schwindel” Returns To Berlin’s Gorki Theater Next Season
The good news is: Mischa Spoliansky’s modern-dating-chaos operetta Alles Schwindel (1931) is returning to Berlin’s Gorki Theater for the 2018/19
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Berlin Letter: Major Revival Of Forgotten Weimar-Era Operetta Is Proving A Hit
For a city so rich in culture, and drowning in history, it is surprising to experience first-hand Berlin’s long cultural
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A Star Is Born: Jonas Dassler In Spoliansky’s “Alles Schwindel” At Gorki Theater
In a way, it’s what every operetta fan secretly dreams of: you go to a performance with new unknown singers,
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Les chevaliers du Ciel: Das Neuköllnical “Fly, Edith, Fly” im BKA
Ja, es gibt Menschen die Dragqueens als Wegbereiterinnen des modernen queeren Lebens sehen und damit auch als Vorkämpferinnen einer offeneren
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Sigrid Grajek Revives Claire Waldoff Repertoire
Die Wirkungsgeschichte von Ikonen folgt eigenen Maßstäben. Und die von Claire Waldoff ganz besonders. Denn die Lieder und Aufnahmen der
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Geschwister Pfister: A New Spoliansky Revue In Berlin
The musical comedies of Mischa Spoliansky have been experiencing quite a revival in recent years – probably because the biting
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“Mischa, Marlene and Me” At The Neue Galerie In New York
The one and only Steve Ross returns to the Café Sabarsky, that fabelhaft cabaret in New York’s Neue Galerie, 1048
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Rediscovering Mischa Spoliansky – In Berlin And Weimar
There is Spoliansky in the air, it seems. And it is certainly high time that this unique composer is rediscovered.
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Orgasmic Operettas: The New Season At The Komische Oper Berlin
There is something slightly orgasmic about the news from the Komische Oper Berlin. The house announced the titles for their
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