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Giorgio Madia: “Entertainment, that’s an insult!”

kevin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:26:40 +0000

Stage director and choreographer Giorgio Madia discusses operetta then and now, with a special focus on the Mörbisch festival years

kevin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:08:43 +0000

It is not unfair to say that the Vienna New Year’s Concert, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, has become something

kevin — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:41:00 +0000

It seems there is Aschenbrödel everywhere these days. The Landestheater Coburg is offering the 1901 “completed new version by Josef

kevin — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:16:57 +0000

Carl Millöcker was one of the trio of Viennese composers who were responsible for the bulk of the outstanding Operetten

kevin — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:49:10 +0000

Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer based their libretto on Les Deux Anglais by P-F Merville, Carl Millöcker wrote the music. Their show, Der

kevin — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:39:58 +0000

1996 erschien Moritz Csákys „kulturhistorischer Essay“ Ideologie der Operette und Wiener Moderne (Wien – Köln – Weimar: Böhlau). 2021 kam

kevin — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:55:17 +0000

When Johann Strauss presented his first operetta Indigo und die 40 Räuber in 1871 – as a Thousand-and-One-Nights-spectacle written with

kevin — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:49:57 +0000

So, now we know what Lotte de Beer as the new artistic director of the Volksoper in Vienna had up

kevin — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 19:11:51 +0000

Carl [Rudolf Michael] Weinberger was born in Vienna on 3 April, 1861, and he died there on 1 November, 1939.

kevin — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:33:52 +0000

It’s only a few days now, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will be at their exercise again. Their 1 January

kevin — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 10:06:38 +0000

This operette in 3 acts by F Zell is based on the comédie-vaudeville Nanon, Ninon et Madame de Maintenon by

kevin — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:19:50 +0000

With the discovery of the opera Leonce and Lena by Erich Zeisl and, now, the first production of Ralph Benatzky’s