Operetta Research Center » Mörbisch

Giorgio Madia: “Entertainment, that’s an insult!”

kevin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:26:40 +0000

Stage director and choreographer Giorgio Madia discusses operetta then and now, with a special focus on the Mörbisch festival years

kevin — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:31:25 +0000

Operettenfreunde in Österreich haben derzeit einen schweren Stand. Im sogenannten „Mekka der Operette“ in Mörbisch wird, seit Altbeau Alfons Haider

kevin — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:14:26 +0000

There’s something supremely uplifting about starting the new year with Franz von Suppé’s rousing Fatinitza march as played by the

kevin — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:08:46 +0000

Recently, Wolfgang Jansen published a collection of essays dealing with “Popular Music Theater under Socialism,” an aspect of 20th century

kevin — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:55:09 +0000

Obviously, there are many ways to present history, including musical history. At the moment, you can watch the amazing Viola

kevin — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:36:33 +0000

There’s a certain irony at play here: the world’s largest operetta festival in Mörbisch kicked out their old director, Dagmar

kevin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:40:55 +0000

The operetta festival in Bad Ischl has ended its 2019 summer season with an 8 percent increase in audience numbers,

kevin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:38:59 +0000

Bigger is not automatically better, some claim, and that’s especially true for operetta, or operetta festivals. So just because the

kevin — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 10:35:11 +0000

You could call this year’s Vogelhändler at the Mörbisch Festival a kick-ass production – or an erect middle-finger in the

kevin — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:32:03 +0000

In variation of the famous saying “Every country has the government it deserves” – by 18th century political philosopher Joseph-Marie

kevin — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:56:06 +0000

In a way you could see it coming: the Seefestpiele Mörbisch tried breaking away from the stuffy (but much beloved)

kevin — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:49:36 +0000

Paul Abraham’s Viktoria und ihr Husar conquered the German language operetta scene in 1930 – and pretty much swept away