Operetta Research Center » Walter Felsenstein 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 Observations Of A Traveling Operetta Enthusiast http://operetta-research-center.org/observations-af-traveling-operetta-enthusiast-chris-weber-offenbach-productions-past-present/ http://operetta-research-center.org/observations-af-traveling-operetta-enthusiast-chris-weber-offenbach-productions-past-present/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:07:07 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=17685 One cannot call them “reviews,” since I don’t read music, and a performance has to be either very good or

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/observations-af-traveling-operetta-enthusiast-chris-weber-offenbach-productions-past-present/feed/ 1 “Ritter Blaubart” At Komische Oper: Stefan Herheim’s Varieté Vanitas http://operetta-research-center.org/ritter-blaubart-komische-oper-stefan-herheims-new-production/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ritter-blaubart-komische-oper-stefan-herheims-new-production/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:05:22 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=14368 Yes, it was a good idea to bring back Offenbach’s murderous Barbe-Bleue to Berlin at Komische Oper where, you will

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ritter-blaubart-komische-oper-stefan-herheims-new-production/feed/ 2 Offenbach’s “Ritter Blaubart” In Cottbus: Reviving Felsenstein http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-ritter-blaubart-cottbus-felsenstein/ http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-ritter-blaubart-cottbus-felsenstein/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:15:04 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11490 Offenbach’s glorious sex-and-social-conventions farce Barbe-bleue was a huge hit in Paris and Vienna back in the 1860s, when Hortense Schneider

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbachs-ritter-blaubart-cottbus-felsenstein/feed/ 1 Walter Felsenstein Revisited: A New Biography http://operetta-research-center.org/walter-felsenstein-revisited-new-biography/ http://operetta-research-center.org/walter-felsenstein-revisited-new-biography/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2015 09:20:43 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=7500 Stage director Walter Felsenstein (1901-1975) is famous for various things: he founded the Komische Oper in East Berlin after WW2

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