Operetta Research Center » Noël Coward 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 Ohio Light Opera 2025 – A Survey of the Highlights http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2025-survey-highlights-harry-forbes/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2025-survey-highlights-harry-forbes/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:46:14 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25610 Where else but at the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster could you find such a wonderfully varied season of musicals

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2025-survey-highlights-harry-forbes/feed/ 0 “Bitte Britisch”: Wenn Frankensteins Monster die Hose runterlässt http://operetta-research-center.org/bitte-britisch-staatsoperette/ http://operetta-research-center.org/bitte-britisch-staatsoperette/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:47:48 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=22716 Vermutlich kennen Fans der Mel-Brooks-Filme den ekstatischen Liebesschrei „A Sweet Mystery of Life“ besser als die meisten Operettenfans hierzulande. Denn

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/bitte-britisch-staatsoperette/feed/ 0 “Bitte Britisch”: Staatsoperette Dresden Takes Us On A Musical Journey http://operetta-research-center.org/bitte-britisch-staatsoperette-dresden-takes-us-musical-journey/ http://operetta-research-center.org/bitte-britisch-staatsoperette-dresden-takes-us-musical-journey/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:56:04 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=22683 I was surprised, and delighted, to hear that the Staatsoperette Dresden are to give an all-“Britisch” concert, taking in a

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/bitte-britisch-staatsoperette-dresden-takes-us-musical-journey/feed/ 0 “Ghost Lights: Ivor Novello and His Leading Ladies“ – A Conversation With David Slattery-Christy About His New Play http://operetta-research-center.org/ghost-lights-ivor-novello-leading-ladies-new-play-david-slattery-christy/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ghost-lights-ivor-novello-leading-ladies-new-play-david-slattery-christy/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:07:22 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=20222 Most operetta fans will know David Slattery-Christy as the biographer of Ivor Novello (1893-1951) and as a tireless champion of

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ghost-lights-ivor-novello-leading-ladies-new-play-david-slattery-christy/feed/ 0 “The Dancing Years”: A Converation with David Slattery-Christy About Ivor Novello, Nazi History And New Recordings http://operetta-research-center.org/dancing-years-converation-david-slattery-christy-ivor-novello-nazi-history-new-recordings/ http://operetta-research-center.org/dancing-years-converation-david-slattery-christy-ivor-novello-nazi-history-new-recordings/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:39:19 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16536 Ivor Novello’s World War 2 hit The Dancing Years has finally been made available in a ‘first complete recording’ by

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/dancing-years-converation-david-slattery-christy-ivor-novello-nazi-history-new-recordings/feed/ 5 Ivor Novello: “Composer of the Week” On BBC3 http://operetta-research-center.org/ivor-novello-bbc3-composer-week/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ivor-novello-bbc3-composer-week/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2016 19:53:48 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11435 Operetta star performer and writer Ivor Novello (1893-1951) will be featured as “Composer of the Week” for BBC Radio 3

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ivor-novello-bbc3-composer-week/feed/ 4 A Noel Coward 4-CD Box: The Complete HMV Recordings http://operetta-research-center.org/noel-coward-4-cd-box/ http://operetta-research-center.org/noel-coward-4-cd-box/#comments Tue, 10 May 2016 06:20:54 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=9787 Noel Coward. His name has become a kind of cliché, in the decades since his death, as the epitome of

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/noel-coward-4-cd-box/feed/ 1 “Swing tanzen verboten”: A Little Book On Operetta After 1933 http://operetta-research-center.org/swing-tanzen-verboten-little-book-operetta-1933/ http://operetta-research-center.org/swing-tanzen-verboten-little-book-operetta-1933/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2016 09:00:28 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=9573 It’s a small book, but full of interesting content: Swing tanzen verboten. Unterhaltungsmusik nach 1933 zwischen Widerstand, Propaganda und Vertreibung.

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/swing-tanzen-verboten-little-book-operetta-1933/feed/ 2 “Don’t Be A Music Snob About Operettas”: Advise From Gardening Guru Alan Titchmarsh http://operetta-research-center.org/dont-music-snob-operettas-advise-gardening-guru-alan-titchmarsh/ http://operetta-research-center.org/dont-music-snob-operettas-advise-gardening-guru-alan-titchmarsh/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:00:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=7480 If you’re British, you undoubtedly will have heard of Alan Titchmarsh, the man who went from gardener to Classical FM

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/dont-music-snob-operettas-advise-gardening-guru-alan-titchmarsh/feed/ 0 What Really Influenced Noël Coward’s “Bitter Sweet”: “Die Fledermaus”? http://operetta-research-center.org/really-influenced-bitter-sweet/ http://operetta-research-center.org/really-influenced-bitter-sweet/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:08:04 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=5471 Amazingly Noël Coward’s first musical book show was Bitter Sweet. Up to that point he had built his reputation as

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/really-influenced-bitter-sweet/feed/ 4 BBC2: A Two-Hour Tribute to Ivor Novello http://operetta-research-center.org/bbc2-two-hour-tribute-ivor-novello/ http://operetta-research-center.org/bbc2-two-hour-tribute-ivor-novello/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 07:25:19 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=4449 „Friday Night is Music Night“: that’s the slogan of the BBC2 concert radio series. Last Friday’s concert was devoted to

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/bbc2-two-hour-tribute-ivor-novello/feed/ 1 Fritzi Massary Revisited: An Interview With Her New Biographer http://operetta-research-center.org/fritz-massary-revisited-interview-biographer-robert-wennersten/ http://operetta-research-center.org/fritz-massary-revisited-interview-biographer-robert-wennersten/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2014 08:55:50 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=3677 Take a deep breath and prepare yourself: there will be – finally – a new and English language biography of

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