Posts Tagged 'Mizzi Günther'

“Lachende Erben“, Or: Another Weinberger?

Carl [Rudolf Michael] Weinberger was born in Vienna on 3 April, 1861, and he died there on 1 November, 1939.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that this first ever CD release of Die lustige Witwe with the 1906/7

The original composer chosen für Die lustige Witwe by authors Leo Stein and Victor Léon was: Richard Heuberger. After he

One of the most successful, and certainly the most widely enduring of Kálmán’s operettas, Die Csárdásfürstin was nevertheless composed to

A soprano with a bomb in her handbag, with which she intends to blow up the male lead? That’s certainly

Henri Meilhac’s play L’Attaché d’ambassade, produced at Paris’s Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1861, was not a success. It was played

Die von der Firma Truesoundtranfers herausgegebene Serie mit Aufnahmen der Lustigen Witwe, des Graf von Luxemburg und der Zigeunerliebe in