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The Return of “Ennobled” Operetta: Lehár, Thielemann, and an Unlearned Lesson

kevin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:01:10 +0000

Berlin was—and in many ways still is—a center of operetta innovation. A reminder: in the 1920s, crucial impulses for renewing

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Lehár’s “Giuditta”: The Splendour and Misery of the Exchangeable

kevin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 09:26:58 +0000

To speak of the genre of Viennese operetta as having a kind of Hegelian spirit, with a life course from

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Lehár’s “Land des Lächelns“ as a Modern Day Dating Operetta?

kevin — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:55:25 +0000

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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Marthaler’s Joyless “Giuditta” In Munich

kevin — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:15:35 +0000

One should have known this would happen. If you hire the 70-year-old Christoph Marthaler, you get exactly that: Marthaler. He

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Lehár’s “Giuditta” As A Mash-Up With Ödön von Horváth’s “Sladek, Or: The Black Army”

kevin — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:27:26 +0000

The premiere of the new production of Lehár’s last operetta Giuditta is coming up at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. It’s

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Slow-Motion Lehár: “Giuditta“ At Bayerische Staatsoper In A Staging By Christoph Marthaler

kevin — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:50:53 +0000

There are those who consider stage director Christoph Marthaler a genius, because he takes the speed out of stories and

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“I Would Like To See More Women Writing About Operetta”: Micaela Baranello Discusses Her Book “The Operetta Empire”

kevin — Sat, 29 May 2021 09:25:35 +0000

The US-American musicologist Micaela Baranello joined the Department of Music at the University of Arkansas in 2017 and has recently

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Basic Operetta Opinions: 11 Questions For Ethel Merhaut

kevin — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:32:48 +0000

Soprano Ethel Merhaut is part of the “young musical scene of Vienna” and likes to “use lots of charme and

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Big Bang Moments: Martin Mitterrutzner Sings Tenor Hits Of The 1930s

kevin — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:52:32 +0000

The repertoire Tyrolean tenor Martin Mitterrutzner presents on his new album Heut’ ist der schönste Tag was made popular in

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Coming-out als Operettenrettung? Interview zum Queer Reading des „Dreimäderlhaus“

kevin — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:30:10 +0000

Als das Dreimäderlhaus am 15. Januar 1916 im Wiener Raimundtheater in Premiere ging waren die Kritiken gespalten. Denn Komponist Heinrich

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Tackling A Tauber Role: Sebastian Kohlhepp In “Schön ist die Welt” From The Bavarian State Opera

kevin — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:15:32 +0000

Okay, Munich has the Gärtnerplatztheater and thus a center of operetta “maintenance” in Germany which competes with Staatsoperette Dresden, Musikalische

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Dumbing Down Operetta: Thomas Macho’s New Lehár Movie On Arte

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

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