Posts Tagged 'Yiddish Operetta'

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Barrie Kosky’s All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue – Plus Other Farewell-Highlights

Of course he wasn’t going to present his last season as intendant of Komische Oper Berlin via Zoom or only

Soprano Ethel Merhaut is part of the “young musical scene of Vienna” and likes to “use lots of charme and

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10/04/2019·1 comment·

“We’re not an operetta palace!“ Says Komische Oper intendant Barrie Kosky at the press conference where he announced the new

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21/10/2017·1 comment·

In 1916 two of the leading exponents of the Yiddish Theater of New York got together to work on one

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As a companion volume to its recent exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, the Museum

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Considering that most new books dealing with Broadway history in coffee table format simply recycle what has already been written

Adolf Philipp (b Lübeck, 29 January 1864; d New York, 30 July 1936) was the eclectic leading light of the

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Because of popular demand – and there obviously is much demand in New York City right now – the production

The White Horse Inn at the Central Park – an Austrian operetta staged in New York in the 1940s? Yes,

An unlikely current hit, the 1923 Yiddish musical Di goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) by Joseph Rumshinsky, emerged after years

This meticulous reconstruction of composer Joseph Rumshinsky’s 1923 operetta Di Goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) may well be the most

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The 27th of January 2015 was a memorial day, not only in Germany, but there especially. 70 years ago the