Arnold Bennett Discusses Operettas & Musicals: Journal Entries 1897-1928
The English author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) is best known as a novelist and playwright. He also kept a journal in
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Constance Drever: Creating “La Veuve joyeuse” With A Strong English Accent
The history of Die lustige Witwe has fascinated us, here at the Operetta Research Center, immensely over the past months.
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The Night Nicole Kidman Went To See “The Merry Widow” And Got Swatted
Who said that operettas don’t make headlines anymore? And that super stars from Hollywood wouldn’t be interested in the genre
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Erich von Stroheim’s “The Merry Widow” At The Staatsoperette Dresden
Some years ago I was asked by the former Dutch Film Museum (renamed Eye Film Institute today) to accompany The
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A Black “Merry Widow of Malagawi”: Re-Imagining A Classic
Another Merry Widow? Yeah, we hear you. (And you’re right.) It’s probably the most over-produced operetta in operetta history, together
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DIE LUSTIGE WITWE Operette in 3 acts
Henri Meilhac’s play L’Attaché d’ambassade, produced at Paris’s Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1861, was not a success. It was played
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THE RED WIDOW Musical play in 3 acts
Colonel Savage’s enormously successful novel His Official Wife was leaped upon by a horde of theatrical adapters, filmed by Hollywood
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