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Arnold Bennett Discusses Operettas & Musicals: Journal Entries 1897-1928

kevin — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:47:38 +0000

The English author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) is best known as a novelist and playwright. He also kept a journal in

kevin — Fri, 28 May 2021 09:04:46 +0000

The history of Die lustige Witwe has fascinated us, here at the Operetta Research Center, immensely over the past months.

kevin — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:04:31 +0000

Who said that operettas don’t make headlines anymore? And that super stars from Hollywood wouldn’t be interested in the genre

kevin — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:00:58 +0000

Some years ago I was asked by the former Dutch Film Museum (renamed Eye Film Institute today) to accompany The

kevin — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:25:37 +0000

Another Merry Widow? Yeah, we hear you. (And you’re right.) It’s probably the most over-produced operetta in operetta history, together

kevin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:30:26 +0000

Henri Meilhac’s play L’Attaché d’ambassade, produced at Paris’s Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1861, was not a success. It was played

kevin — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:50:38 +0000

Colonel Savage’s enormously successful novel His Official Wife was leaped upon by a horde of theatrical adapters, filmed by Hollywood