Operetta Research Center » Schwules Museum* 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 The World’s First Queer Operetta Is Coming To BKA http://operetta-research-center.org/operette-fur-zwei-schwule-tenore-bka/ http://operetta-research-center.org/operette-fur-zwei-schwule-tenore-bka/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:18:22 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=22517 The BKA Theater (Berliner Kabarett Anstalt) just announced that “the world’s first queer operetta” will premiere on 6 October, 2021,

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/operette-fur-zwei-schwule-tenore-bka/feed/ 0 RSC: Reconstructing Erik Charell’s Shakespeare Adaptation “Swingin’ the Dream” http://operetta-research-center.org/rsc-brings-erik-charells-shakespeare-adaptation-swingin-dream-back-concert/ http://operetta-research-center.org/rsc-brings-erik-charells-shakespeare-adaptation-swingin-dream-back-concert/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:01:21 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21264 When the Shakespeare adaptation Swingin‘ the Dream opened on Broadway in 1939 it followed Erik Charell’s earlier XXL-sized Broadway hit

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/rsc-brings-erik-charells-shakespeare-adaptation-swingin-dream-back-concert/feed/ 0 Adolf Wohlbrück or Anton Walbrook? A Retrospective In Berlin & A New Book From Vienna http://operetta-research-center.org/wohlbruck-walbrook-retrospective-berlin-new-book/ http://operetta-research-center.org/wohlbruck-walbrook-retrospective-berlin-new-book/#comments Wed, 27 May 2020 11:24:21 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19853 Wohlbrück or Walbrook? Adolf or Anton? Whatever you choose to call him, the actor known under two names was one

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/wohlbruck-walbrook-retrospective-berlin-new-book/feed/ 1 Cross-Dressed Military Operetta In World War 1 And 2: An Exhibition In Meiningen And A New Book http://operetta-research-center.org/cross-dressed-military-operetta-world-war-1-two-exhibition-meiningen-new-book/ http://operetta-research-center.org/cross-dressed-military-operetta-world-war-1-two-exhibition-meiningen-new-book/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2018 21:26:55 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16074 Back in 2014, corresponding with the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, the Schwules Museum in Berlin offered

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/cross-dressed-military-operetta-world-war-1-two-exhibition-meiningen-new-book/feed/ 0 “Bühnenbild: Peter Kothe.” The Forgotten World Of Operetta In Socialism http://operetta-research-center.org/peter-kothe-operetta-schwules-museum/ http://operetta-research-center.org/peter-kothe-operetta-schwules-museum/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:32:56 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=10438 Operetta in East-Germany has turned into a topic I have become more and more fascinated with. Maybe because my first

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