Lehár’s “Land des Lächelns“ as a Modern Day Dating Operetta?
Franz Lehár’s 1929 hit Das Land des Lächelns, written for star tenor Richard Tauber and containing the ever popular “Dein
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Club Of Sperm Drinkers? “Die Fledermaus” At Neuköllner Oper
Did you think you’d ever see the day that the eternally popular Fledermaus would return to its pornographic roots? Admittedly,
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“Stella: Ein deutsches Singspiel” By Wolfgang Böhmer And Peter Lund
It seems there is a new and inspiring wave of “history musicals,” with Hamilton on Broadway leading the way: a
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“Grimm”: Tomorrow’s Stars In Today’s Hit-Show
Yes, here it finally is: the original cast album and DVD version of Grimm. This fairy tale musical, with some
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Grimm!, or Who’s Afraid of the Big, Dancing Wolf?
Last year, while in Berlin, I went to see the musical produced by the UDK musical-theatre school and its graduating
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Eyes Wide Open: A New Generation of Operetta Superstars?
“I had a dream” – and, yes, it was “a beautiful dream”; right in the middle of a performance of
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“Kätz”-Premiere in der Neuköllner Oper
Von den 102 Bühnenwerken, die Jacques Offenbach in seiner dreißigjährigen Komponistenkarriere geschaffen hat, sind einem, wenns hoch kommt, eine Handvoll
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