Operetta Research Center » Sigmund Romberg 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 Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: The Glory of Hollywood Operetta in Jeanine Basinger’s “The Movie Musical” http://operetta-research-center.org/jeanette-macdonald-nelson-eddy-glory-hollywood-operetta-jeanine-basingers-new-book/ http://operetta-research-center.org/jeanette-macdonald-nelson-eddy-glory-hollywood-operetta-jeanine-basingers-new-book/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:23:17 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18906 One of the more joyous things about recent new studies on musicals is the fact that they include operettas, without

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/jeanette-macdonald-nelson-eddy-glory-hollywood-operetta-jeanine-basingers-new-book/feed/ 1 THE NEW MOON: A Romantic musical play by Oscar Hammerstein & Sigmund Romberg http://operetta-research-center.org/new-moon-romantic-musical-play-sigmund-romberg/ http://operetta-research-center.org/new-moon-romantic-musical-play-sigmund-romberg/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:07:51 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=18873 The team responsible for that overwhelming hit of 1926, The Desert Song, mined a similar vein for their next collaboration,

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/new-moon-romantic-musical-play-sigmund-romberg/feed/ 5 Kurt Weill’s “Lady in the Dark” Revived At City Center in New York http://operetta-research-center.org/kurt-weills-lady-dark-revived-city-center-new-york/ http://operetta-research-center.org/kurt-weills-lady-dark-revived-city-center-new-york/#comments Wed, 01 May 2019 07:26:45 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=17308 Gertrude Lawrence’s 1941 megahit, Lady in the Dark, groundbreaking in its day for its then novel use of psychoanalysis in

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/kurt-weills-lady-dark-revived-city-center-new-york/feed/ 0 The Bernstein/Kosky “Candide” At Komische Oper Berlin: “A Really Spectacular Disaster”? http://operetta-research-center.org/candide-komische-oper-berlin/ http://operetta-research-center.org/candide-komische-oper-berlin/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:50:59 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16176 Writing an operetta in the 1950s for Broadway was certainly – a bit eccentric! The grand operetta hits had all

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/candide-komische-oper-berlin/feed/ 2 Rombergs “Blossom Time”: Deutsche Erstaufführung in Annaberg-Buchholz http://operetta-research-center.org/sigmund-romberg-blossom-time-deutsche-erstauffuhrung-annaberg-buchholz/ http://operetta-research-center.org/sigmund-romberg-blossom-time-deutsche-erstauffuhrung-annaberg-buchholz/#comments Mon, 07 May 2018 07:53:05 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=14739 Das Dreimäderlhaus von Heinrich Berté, eine Pasticcio-Operette mit Musik von Franz Schubert (1916), war ein Welterfolg. Nicht nur im deutschen

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/sigmund-romberg-blossom-time-deutsche-erstauffuhrung-annaberg-buchholz/feed/ 0 Trying To Avoid The Same Old Superlatives: The 2017 Ohio Light Opera Season http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2017-season/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2017-season/#comments Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:46:19 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=12852 Writing these annual roundups of Ohio Light Opera’s summer festival – run with consistent panache by Artistic Director Steven Daigle

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2017-season/feed/ 2 A New “Student Prince” With John Mauceri http://operetta-research-center.org/student-prince-john-mauceri/ http://operetta-research-center.org/student-prince-john-mauceri/#comments Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:00:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11743 This CD could probably only be released for a German market and for German operetta fans who have no idea

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/student-prince-john-mauceri/feed/ 0 Sigmund Romberg’s 1933 “Melody”: First Complete Cast Album http://operetta-research-center.org/sigmund-romberg-melody-cast-album/ http://operetta-research-center.org/sigmund-romberg-melody-cast-album/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2016 09:46:39 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11399 Romberg’s Broadway operettas have not been revived professionally in the UK since matinee idol John Hanson – he of the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/sigmund-romberg-melody-cast-album/feed/ 0 Sigmund Romberg’s 1933 Musical Romance “Melody” On CD: New Cast Recording http://operetta-research-center.org/rombergs-1933-musical-romance-melody-cd/ http://operetta-research-center.org/rombergs-1933-musical-romance-melody-cd/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:53:25 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11259 It is seemingly inevitable that a conversation among Broadway aficionados about composer Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) eventually turns to the question:

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/rombergs-1933-musical-romance-melody-cd/feed/ 0 “Girls With No Clothes To Speak Of”: Broadway-Operetta Then And Now http://operetta-research-center.org/girls-clothes-speak-operetta-broadway-now/ http://operetta-research-center.org/girls-clothes-speak-operetta-broadway-now/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:13:30 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=7117 There is a renewed interest in operetta internationally, not just the French and Austrian variety of the genre, but also

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/josh-groban-sets-example-stages/feed/ 0 4 For 45: Operetta Movie Classics On Sale At Warner http://operetta-research-center.org/4-45-operetta-classics-sale/ http://operetta-research-center.org/4-45-operetta-classics-sale/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:04:35 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=5445 It is not quite an “indecent proposal,” as in the 1993 Robert Redford movie. But still, it’s a stunning offer:

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