Operetta Research Center » Richard Bonynge 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 “Dorothy” By Alfred Cellier: World Premiere Recording http://operetta-research-center.org/dorothy-alfred-cellier-world-premiere-recording/ http://operetta-research-center.org/dorothy-alfred-cellier-world-premiere-recording/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:25:05 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16523 Before the building of railways into London from the rest of south-east England in the third quarter of the nineteenth

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/dorothy-alfred-cellier-world-premiere-recording/feed/ 5 Johann Strauss’s “Aschenbrödel” (1899): A Modern-Day Cinderella Story Conducted By Ernst Theis http://operetta-research-center.org/johann-strausss-aschenbrodel-cinderella-ernst-theis/ http://operetta-research-center.org/johann-strausss-aschenbrodel-cinderella-ernst-theis/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2018 10:50:02 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=15781 It’s not exactly a secret that Johann Strauss was a great dance music composer. Before he turned to operetta in

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/johann-strausss-aschenbrodel-cinderella-ernst-theis/feed/ 2 “The Mountebanks” By Gilbert And Cellier: A New BBC Recording http://operetta-research-center.org/cellier-gilbert-the-mountebanks-recording/ http://operetta-research-center.org/cellier-gilbert-the-mountebanks-recording/#comments Sun, 13 May 2018 10:04:23 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=14807 After the success of The Gondoliers in December 1889, D’Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan had a well-publicised disagreement because Gilbert

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/kalmans-die-bajadere-recording-cologne/feed/ 1 Michael W. Balfe’s “Satanella,” Plus: A Contemporary Cantata And “Merman’s Apprentice” http://operetta-research-center.org/balfes-satanella-plus-mermans-apprentice/ http://operetta-research-center.org/balfes-satanella-plus-mermans-apprentice/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:12:20 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=9124 It is not often that I write about recordings. Since my massive listening-writing effort of The Musical Theatre on Record,

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