Operetta Research Center » Musical Comedy http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Extra ordinär? Das „Mozart“-Musical von Kunze/Levay in München http://operetta-research-center.org/extra-ordinar-das-neue-mozart-musical-von-sylvester-levay-und-michael-kunze-inszeniert-von-andreas-gergen/ http://operetta-research-center.org/extra-ordinar-das-neue-mozart-musical-von-sylvester-levay-und-michael-kunze-inszeniert-von-andreas-gergen/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:29:24 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25328 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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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/extra-ordinar-das-neue-mozart-musical-von-sylvester-levay-und-michael-kunze-inszeniert-von-andreas-gergen/feed/ 0 Operette und Musicals in der DDR: Ein Gespräch mit Werner P. Seiferth vom Metropoltheater http://operetta-research-center.org/operette-und-musicals-der-ddr-ein-gesprach-mit-dem-metropoltheater-intendanten-werner-p-seiferth/ http://operetta-research-center.org/operette-und-musicals-der-ddr-ein-gesprach-mit-dem-metropoltheater-intendanten-werner-p-seiferth/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:26:12 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21387 Übers Thema Operette in der DDR wird in letzter Zeit wieder mehr gesprochen. 2012 gab es in der Ausstellung Welt

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/operette-und-musicals-der-ddr-ein-gesprach-mit-dem-metropoltheater-intendanten-werner-p-seiferth/feed/ 0 “The Pleasure Garden“: The LGBT History of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as a Musical http://operetta-research-center.org/pleasure-garden-londons-gay-history-musical/ http://operetta-research-center.org/pleasure-garden-londons-gay-history-musical/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:36:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23774 Back in 2004, the Wien Museum presented the exhibition Alt-Wien: Die Stadt, die niemals war. It examined the phenomenon that

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/pleasure-garden-londons-gay-history-musical/feed/ 0 Remembering Musical Theater Historian David Hummel http://operetta-research-center.org/david-hummel-musical-theater-historian/ http://operetta-research-center.org/david-hummel-musical-theater-historian/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:28:05 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23283 This isn’t an obituary. No facts. I never met Dave, though we have been in touch for half a century.

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/david-hummel-musical-theater-historian/feed/ 0 Kurt Gänzl’s “The Musical: A Concise History” Revisited & Revised http://operetta-research-center.org/kurt-ganzl-musical-concise-history/ http://operetta-research-center.org/kurt-ganzl-musical-concise-history/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:49:23 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23199 The original edition of Kurt Gänzl’s The Musical came out in 1997, as a “Concise History” published by Northeastern University

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/james-gaffigan-new-musical-director-komische-oper-berlin/feed/ 0 New Online Encyclopedia On Popular Musical Theater In Germany From 1945 Until Today http://operetta-research-center.org/new-online-encyclopedia-popular-musical-theater-germany-1945-till-today/ http://operetta-research-center.org/new-online-encyclopedia-popular-musical-theater-germany-1945-till-today/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:04:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19955 More than 300 musicals have already been documented, many more will follow: the University of Freiburg’s Center for Popular Culture

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/new-online-encyclopedia-popular-musical-theater-germany-1945-till-today/feed/ 0 “Looking for orchids in a corn field”: Nadine Secunde Talks About The Changing Art of Operetta Singing http://operetta-research-center.org/looking-orchid-corn-field-nadine-secunde-talks-changing-art-operetta-singing/ http://operetta-research-center.org/looking-orchid-corn-field-nadine-secunde-talks-changing-art-operetta-singing/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2016 11:00:05 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=8742 American soprano Nadine Secunde is probably not someone you’d immediately associate with operetta or musical comedy, or light(er) music in

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/looking-orchid-corn-field-nadine-secunde-talks-changing-art-operetta-singing/feed/ 2 “Hamilton”: America’s Founding Fathers Set To Hip-Hop http://operetta-research-center.org/hamilton-americas-founding-fathers-set-hip-hop/ http://operetta-research-center.org/hamilton-americas-founding-fathers-set-hip-hop/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:49:02 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=7752 Quadruple threat librettist-composer-lyricist-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) has conceived an utterly original, ambitious, irresistible new musical inspired by Ron

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/hamilton-americas-founding-fathers-set-hip-hop/feed/ 0 “Girls With No Clothes To Speak Of”: Broadway-Operetta Then And Now http://operetta-research-center.org/girls-clothes-speak-operetta-broadway-now/ http://operetta-research-center.org/girls-clothes-speak-operetta-broadway-now/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:13:30 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=7117 There is a renewed interest in operetta internationally, not just the French and Austrian variety of the genre, but also

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