| 单词 | operetta |
| 例句 | They were all outfitted with showy uniforms that looked like costumes from an operetta, but he was unable to make them wear shoes, because they were accustomed to going barefoot and could not adjust. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, in the silence of the night, when the city lost its stage-set normality and operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thoughts she had repressed during the day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the universal admiration for Offenbach’s comic operettas, the opulence of the Parisian experience of opera and its position in society still meant it was a luxury. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Nor that the young Rousseau should put some of his earliest thoughts about society and the individual in an operetta about Columbus and the Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Kelli O’Hara, the Broadway star who sang in the Met’s version of the operetta “The Merry Widow,” will appear as the wily maid, Despina. Highlights From the Met Opera’s 2017-18 Season 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The summer's hottest ticket is OSF artistic director Bill Rauch's richly entertaining outdoor staging of the familiar Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. 5 plays at Oregon Shakespeare Festival: a critic's take 2011-07-31T04:07:15Z Now how about an immersion in Weimar operetta? A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z A straightforward, straight-talking presence, her Hanna — whose husband has died, leaving her the millions that are fought over in this Franz Lehar blockbuster 1905 operetta — has no pretensions and no illusions. Review: ‘The Merry Widow,’ Revisited at the Met 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Kosky has become a crucial advocate for the modern revival of operetta. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z My favorite line from the operetta was, “See that lovely soft texture, almost like a souffle. But it’s nicer than a souffle, because it doesn’t fall.” An operetta about Julia Child, with servings of chocolate cake at the end? It’s happening at The Rendezvous | Art Outings 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Ms. O’Hara is the modern incarnation of the traditional operetta ingénue; she doesn’t flutter or simper. Music Review: Back at Midcentury, When Broadway Knew Romance 2011-03-22T20:15:03Z Plus: musical directors, the Broadway shows made into movies, biopics about composers, singers and dancers, operettas, animated musicals and insights into why certain stars in Broadway musicals never made it to stardom in Hollywood. The History of Hollywood, Home Economics and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Though his compositional side is known today largely through Romantic miniatures and faux-Baroque pieces, Kreisler was a prolific composer with a handful of operettas to his credit. Music Review: ?Quartet Variations? at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-15T21:53:02Z The conductor Ion Marin was sensitive to the musical complexities that Puccini sneaks below the surface of this deceptively lightweight score, his attempt to write the Italian opera equivalent of a wry Viennese operetta. Music Review: Kristine Opolais Makes Met Debut in Puccini’s ‘Rondine’ 2013-01-13T21:20:46Z Mr. Ochs originally thought he might one day translate the operetta for a scholarly edition that few people would ever see. A Yiddish Operetta, Once Lost, Will Receive Its Full First Staging in 70 Years 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Of all the Sullivan scores, “Pirates” is perhaps the closest to real opera as opposed to operetta. ‘Pirates of Penzance’ Gives Lift to English National Opera 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Wanted: Mistresses, Must Be Married Among Offenbach’s many operettas “La Périchole” is generally considered his most charming. Music Review: ‘La Périchole,’ by New York City Opera, at City Center 2013-04-22T21:59:38Z Mr. Niedo said French musical theater emerged from a tradition built upon 19th- and 20th-century operettas, whose popularity began waning in the late 1950s as tastes shifted. With ‘Oliver Twist,’ a French Musical Aims Higher 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Then I started to sing operetta, Romanian songs, and then some . Portrait of the artist: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano 2011-07-18T21:31:00Z In the fourth episode of “Surviving R. Kelly,” the music journalist Ann Powers suggests that “Trapped in the Closet,” Kelly’s bonkers episodic soap operetta, was a strategic career move. How ‘Chappelle’s Show’ and ‘The Boondocks’ Kept Us Laughing at R. Kelly 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Musically, this imperial style reached its apogee in the songs of Lerner and Loewe and Rodgers and Hammerstein, who half a century ago defined a muscular, Americanized offshoot of operetta. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z He waltzed across the stage with Ms. Blue during a selection from Lehar’s operetta “The Merry Widow,” which concluded the program. Review: Angel Blue Makes Her Met Debut 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Each of the songs — which range from bathing-beauty frolics to power-chord operetta ballads — spins a single tune until it loses its tread. Theater: At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit 2010-03-10T06:07:00Z “Austrian tenors are always going for operetta,” he said. How Do You Conquer One of Opera’s Toughest Roles? Start Light 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Long before there was much shaking on Broadway, this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was all the rage — throughout the U.S. and abroad, often in pirated versions. Local theater: From 'Laramie' to 'La Mancha' to the HMS Pinafore 2010-07-01T20:43:00Z My mother had a book of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas on piano, and somehow I learned the songs. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z With its skillful echoes of the British music hall and operetta, the score blooms onstage as it doesn’t entirely on a recording. | 'Where?s Charley?': A Few Wacky Victorians in Love 2011-03-18T22:54:37Z Show music was born a mongrel form, of course, when the lyric sounds of operetta became infused with the vitality of original American forms like jazz and blues. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z There's no problem getting into the spirit of the silliness, but a surfeit of plot and musical numbers threatens to turn this operetta into a marathon. 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder' kills it at the Ahmanson 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Just like the original operetta, and as wittily done with as light a touch. The Mikado 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Franz Lehar’s operetta returns to the Met, in Jeremy Sams’s English translation. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z ‘The Golden Bride’ This long-lost, newly reconstructed Yiddish operetta is an immigrant fantasy that looks as fondly on Mother Russia as on Uncle Sam. Theater Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z But as illuminating as these interpretations were, they still gave the impression of occurring in the quaint alternate universe of a musical descended from operetta. Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Listen to the original recordings of the great Rodgers & Hart numbers and you will be amazed—and a little shocked—by how much of the thrum and vibrato and rhythmic squareness of operetta they retain. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Wilson recently conducted two performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “Princess Ida” on period instruments, with “tiny trombones and cornets and gut strings and everything.” The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z They sing music from the worlds of opera, operetta, Broadway musicals and Danish, Swedish and Icelandic folk songs, often in lighthearted, humorous fashion. The Week Ahead: 'Please Give,' Jewel, Nordic Singers are arts highlights 2010-06-16T23:32:00Z That followed a French operetta duet that had Felicity Lott making turkey noises while Maltman baaed like a sheep. William Lyne birthday gala – review 2012-11-30T17:56:42Z After all, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas draw much of their comedy from overt references to their own artifice. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “In the 1960s, rock put an end to the operetta,” he said, “as did the arrival of American pop musicals like ‘Hair,’ ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and French productions like ‘Mayflower’ and ‘La Révolution Française.’ With ‘Oliver Twist,’ a French Musical Aims Higher 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z After appearing with Jack Jackson's band at the Mayfair hotel, he took a part in Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Land of Smiles. Bernard Hunter 2012-10-07T13:17:00Z One of the most passionately debated stage works of our time is a 131-year-old operetta. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Conductor Yves Abel and the orchestra coped admirably and expeditiously with Offenbach’s score, which ranges from frothy operetta to grand opera in style. ‘Tales of Hoffmann’: Speight Jenkins goes out on a high note 2014-05-05T16:26:58Z Salute to Vienna The Strauss Symphony of America and a cohort of singers and dancers perform classic waltzes, operetta selections, etc., by Johann Strauss II. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Dec. 31-Jan. 7: Sarah Chang with Julio Elizalde and more 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z His Broadway directing debut, in 1936, was an adaptation of his hit Berlin operetta “White Horse Inn” with a cast of 145 — no wonder he was nicknamed “the Ziegfeld of the German musical comedy stage.” Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z His remarkable diction enabled him to shine in patter roles of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and he featured prominently in that repertoire throughout his career. Derek Hammond-Stroud obituary 2012-05-27T16:09:09Z Since arriving at that company in 2012, he has scored some of his greatest hits with productions of long overlooked works, including operettas by German-speaking Jewish composers like Paul Abraham and Oscar Straus. Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “Fat City” is an Edward Hopper painting, a Robert Frank photograph, a midnight-choir Tom Waits operetta plunked on an out-of-tune piano. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z All in all, though, the Met may just not be a place for operetta. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z You see a straight line in operetta in to Jerome Kern and Rodgers & Hammerstein. Can this man save the Pasadena Playhouse? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z At 12, he appeared in a stage production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "The Pirates of Penzance" and sparked his early interest in acting. Actor Peter Falk renowned for TV role 'Columbo' 2011-06-25T04:41:43Z Viardot wrote both the music and words for this chamber operetta about Cinderella, a fanciful interpretation of the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Recent Metropolitan Opera audiences may recognize it from Lehar’s operetta “The Merry Widow” as an echo of the melody to which Count Danilo sings “I’m off to Chez Maxim.” An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z It can be tricky to stage an operetta convincingly and compellingly; Kosky and his team have performed some dramaturgical surgery as part of their rescue missions. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Lily Elsie was an unhappy British waif, most famous for playing the heroine in the operetta “The Merry Widow.” Antiques: New Auctioneers Take Over for Tepper; Long-Ago Spokesmodels 2012-01-19T22:49:43Z “Because if you type it into Google, you only find operetta. Many opera directors will see this and won’t even invite you to audition.” How Do You Conquer One of Opera’s Toughest Roles? Start Light 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Like Mike Leigh’s 1999 film “Topsy-Turvy,” which told the story of Gilbert and Sullivan as they created “The Mikado,” the new production will firmly establish the operetta as a work of the Victorian imagination. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z In Germany, though, operetta remained only as a soulless shadow of itself. The Last Operetta of the Weimar Republic Returns to Berlin 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Puccini originally intended the piece for Vienna's Carltheater, which wanted an operetta, but he composed it as a comic opera, and World War I caused the premiere to be shifted to Monte Carlo in 1917. Opolais makes winning Met debut in 'La Rondine' 2013-01-14T01:16:04Z Actually it’s not even a French opera, it’s an operetta that turns into an opera in the fourth act. It’s ‘Carmen.’ But Not Like You’ve Ever Seen It. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z But best of all was the record of excerpts from that pearl among operettas, Die Fledermaus. Family life 2012-09-28T23:05:25Z When they scan the horizon in search of He whose arrival they perpetually anticipate, one Mr. Godot, they strike the exaggerated eye-shielding poses of sailors from an operetta chorus. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He recently shared the Berlin stage – the Admiralspalast where Hitler once had a vast purpose-built box from which he would watch operetta – with Michael Mittermeier, a Bavarian comic with a considerable following in Germany. Comedy without borders: Eddie Izzard and the language of standup 2013-04-24T11:00:05Z Anyone who sees the operetta now will hear more of his lyrics than audiences did in the 1950s. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan for their 1885 operetta, relocating the action to a fantastical land that resembles a circus crossed with a carnival. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z At the heart of this 1885 operetta by the librettist William Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan is a satire skewering British bureaucratic zeal. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Then there was Mother's much prized 45 of Elisabeth Schumann singing operetta. Family life 2012-09-28T23:05:25Z The score whips up Broadway standards from a froth of gypsy airs, operettas and Viennese waltzes. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z The festival kicks off a season that includes “La Traviata” and “The Merry Widow of Malagawi,” an update of Franz Lehár’s operetta that sets the action in contemporary Africa. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Then she showed her paces as a comedian in her set of La Fille du Régiment, also in many sets of operetta. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z Constructed as a sort of visual operetta, the film begins with a conductor lifting his baton from a podium and ends with him setting it down. DVD: Chopin, Schubert and Dietrich (the Latter Nude) 2011-06-03T17:11:56Z While other German and Austrian theaters often stage operetta as cozy nostalgia, Mr. Kosky’s work is more snazzy musical theater — less Johann Strauss II than Cole Porter. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In addition to his much-loved violin bonbons, Kreisler also composed operettas, songs and a string quartet. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The Victorian operettas, he says, were revolutionary in their time and “filled with such incredible joy and surprise and intelligence.” A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Bernstein’s original collaborator on the operetta was the playwright Lillian Hellman, but she eventually withdrew her libretto, and together they enlisted contributions from lyricists including Latouche, Dorothy Parker and, finally, Richard Wilbur. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z David attended Crane Country Day School in Montecito, Calif., where he starred in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “H.M.S. Pinafore” and other musical productions, but he flunked out. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z "In the 1940s and '50s, songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein were rooted in European operetta," says Reineke by phone from Detroit. 'Broadway Rocks' pairs Seattle Symphony with hits from the New York stage 2010-07-08T20:42:00Z He had intended to become a painter but switched course after receiving a standing ovation during a student production of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. John Lithgow?s Memoir ?Drama: An Actor?s Education? 2011-09-25T22:59:17Z That work’s blithe spirit lingered after the second intermission, enhancing a positively glorious final segment of waltzes, gallops and operetta excerpts by the extended Strauss family and their stylistic kin. Music Review: Zubin Mehta Leads Final Concert in Festival 2014-03-17T22:11:13Z He has transformed the biography of one of America’s Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, into a merry, extravagantly annotated hip-hop operetta. History as you’ve never heard it before 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Music lovers are currently reveling in his sets for Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss Jr.’s 1874 comic operetta, which opened at New York’s Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve and runs through February 22. The Opulent Sets of the Metropolitan Opera's Die Fledermaus Recreates Fin de Siècle Vienna 2014-01-31T05:00:00Z He also appeared in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. George Gaynes, a Versatile Character Actor, Dies at 98 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The racing strings evoked Giselle’s heart palpitations, and the questions and reassurances in the music when the two lovers danced brought to mind a wordless operetta. Uncommonly intimate ‘Giselle’ at the Kennedy Center Well, “Phantom” was at bottom an operetta too, yet even in an obsolete genre has run on Broadway for 35 years. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z There will be a receiving line, because the protocol of these celebrations derives substantially from comic operetta by way of 1930s Hollywood. At the Met, Andrew Bolton Is the Storyteller in Chief 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z On Friday at 6 p.m., a film screening will feature footage from a 1929 stage production of Coward’s three-act operetta “Bitter Sweet”; a discussion will follow with Brad Rosenstein, curator of the exhibition. Spare Times for Aug. 10-16 2012-08-10T04:40:09Z The operetta’s opening lines — “If you want to know who we are / We are gentlemen of Japan” — now run “If you want to know who we are / We are citizens of this land.” A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z And operetta allows him to be “completely ludicrous,” as he said. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Musically, Ms. Ebersole is a freewheeling time traveler whose affection for operetta and vaudeville allows her to hopscotch merrily through the decades. Review: Christine Ebersole Has a Soundtrack for Starting New Chapters 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “It is a love turned to loathing of Vienna, the capital of ‘cavaliers, courtiers, epicures, estheticians, attitudinizers,’ of the ‘dramaturgy of pure gesture,’ of ‘poverty spiced with panache,’ of operettas, psychoanalysis and anti-Semitism.’ Frederic Morton, wartime refugee and then chronicler of Austria, dies at 90 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Imeneo is shorter and less substantial than almost any of his other operas; he himself advertised it as an operetta. Imeneo – review 2013-03-12T18:56:27Z He conducted the operettas for stage performances for the D'Oyly Carte company, and early in his career fashioned a very successful ballet, Pineapple Poll, from Sullivan's music. Charles Mackerras on CD: five of the best recordings 2010-07-16T09:07:00Z For most of its existence, whether called an opera, an operetta, a light opera or a musical comedy, has been a source of scholarly contention. Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole take the L.A. Opera stage for 'Candide' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Offenbach, from an earlier era, is a different flavor of operetta. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Written in 1858, “Orpheus” was Offenbach’s first large-scale operetta; the genre had been enabled, by a change in theatrical regulations, to expand to multiple acts and larger casts. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In doing so, they shook off the vestiges of costume operettas to discover an abidingly — and in the case of “Oklahoma!” disturbingly — radical energy at their core. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Is the work a musical comedy, an operetta or an opera? 'Candide' is revisited in a playfully imaginative staging by Long Beach Opera 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Testa’s performance, like so many of the others here, lets us look beyond the operetta poses of yore and see a real, gritty survivor — a status that turns out to involve moral compromise. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “Or we can have incredible advance sales for an operetta where people don’t even know the title or the music.” Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Stroman’s comments appeared in a feature about the operetta “The Merry Widow,” which she is directing and which opens Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Opera. D.C. theater scene abuzz with news about ‘Little Dancer,’ ‘Diner’ and ‘Fiddler’ 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z A rare treat for lovers of opera, operetta and Broadway musical comedy, this is also one of the finest undertakings of artistic honcho David Armstrong's 5th Avenue tenure. Review: A soaring, witty 'Candide' at 5th Avenue 2010-05-28T21:42:00Z Melodramatic in the old-fashioned sense, a hero or villain from an operetta or Ayn Rand, he crows his lines like a rooster, albeit in an accent suspended somewhere between East Anglia and Texas. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Strauss’s effervescent send-up of Viennese high society is considered a high point of the operetta genre. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “Opera” is derived from the Latin word for work, and she classifies opera, operetta and musicals under the broader heading of “works.” Music Review: ‘Approaching Ali’ by D. J. Sparr at Kennedy Center 2013-06-10T21:43:12Z In 2001, she returned to Broadway after more than 50 years to play the operetta star Heidi Schiller in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” Joan Roberts, Heroine of Original ‘Oklahoma!,’ Dies at 95 2012-08-16T03:15:26Z He acknowledges — how could you not? — that the Savoyard operettas pointedly skewer bel canto conventions, both literary and musical. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z The first production, in 1882, was the middling operetta “The Witch,” by Abraham Goldfaden, regarded as the father of the modern Yiddish theater. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The next year, he appeared on Broadway, singing a small role in “Bitter Sweet,” an operetta with book, music and lyrics by Coward that ran for 159 performances. Obituaries: Hugues Cu?nod Dies at 108; Versatile, Light-Voiced Tenor 2010-12-08T04:29:00Z I think it would be fun to do an operetta, and there’s a French play I’d love to adapt. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Thanks to a popular exhibition of Japanese culture in Knightsbridge, which helped inspire the operetta and whet the public appetite for it, “The Mikado” was a spectacular hit in its 1885 London debut. Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society celebrates 60 years 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Johann Strauss’s 1874 operetta “Die Fledermaus” hinges on a series of misunderstandings that begin with one condemned man’s decision to visit a party rather than go to jail. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In the words of the director Barrie Kosky, whose new production of the operetta opens at the Salzburg Festival on Aug. 14, it’s “fabulous nonsense.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The film director Mike Leigh, whose hyperrealist movies include a 1999 film about the operetta composers Gilbert and Sullivan, makes his opera directing debut with one of their works. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z “Knickerbocker Holiday,” for starters, sits somewhere between Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and Tin Pan Alley, not to mention somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z "The Merry Widow": Light Opera Works presents the Viennese operetta about the widow Hanna, who has 20 million francs in her checking account and a big invite to the ball. Save the Seats 2014: We've got your ticket for New Year's Eve 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Under this model, Bennetts would lose her artistic autonomy, and the company would be expected to provide dancers for operettas and musicals on demand. Ballet Menu; Ballet Black ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:48Z To make an operetta like this work in a house the size of the Met, compromises are required. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The ending is never in doubt, yet the remains irresistible for its charming characters and lively pace, and above all, for its rich, colorful score: part bubbly operetta, part Bohemian folk pageant. Opera Review: ?Bartered Bride? a Fine Start to Marriage of Met and Juilliard 2011-02-16T13:36:30Z The program — which includes operetta numbers, polkas and immortal Strauss dance tunes in three-quarter time — “makes you happy and joyful,” says Gösch, 32. ‘Interpretation of Trees’ on exhibit at the Embassy of Argentina 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Among his biggest hits there have been deliriously overstuffed, razzle-dazzle stagings of operettas and musicals, including many forgotten works of the Weimar Republic. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Karzas attended Harvard College as a history and literature major, playing piano for performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and singing in the Harvard Glee Club. WFMT's Andrew Karzas dies after cancer battle 2011-04-12T03:45:00Z In fact, the great Orpheus work from that era was Offenbach’s delightfully witty and irreverent operetta “Orpheus in the Underworld,” which pokes fun at the obsession. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Gemma: If an operetta about baking a cake just sounds weird to you, this show probably won’t change your mind. An operetta about Julia Child, with servings of chocolate cake at the end? It’s happening at The Rendezvous | Art Outings 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Starting smaller with, say, a chamber opera or an operetta never even occurred to them. A Student Startup and Its Outsize Wagnerian Dream 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Opening a new production of Franz Lehar’s enduring operetta “The Merry Widow” as a New Year’s Eve gala at the Metropolitan Opera seemed a promising idea. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “My intention is to champion this family and to inspire audiences night after night with a thrilling programme of musical diversity, attracting audiences from opera to operetta through to popular music,” he said. English National Opera Names New Artistic Director 1465-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Sondheim’s music examines the entire pre-1960s tradition, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Viennese operetta, through the Gershwins’ satires, Cole Porter’s burlesque musicals and beyond. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z We hear, from pols and sheikhs, High-pitched shrieks, like an operetta. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Its antecedents in the operetta and music hall traditions had largely passed out of pop consciousness. Review: A Multiple-Exposure ‘Me and My Girl’ at Encores! 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z His recordings include many works in the standard repertoire, along with operettas and Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide.” Nicolai Gedda, Celebrated Opera Tenor, Dies at 91 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Musical theater, a genre with roots in the European operetta tradition, has drawn inspiration from such varied influences as vaudeville, jazz and Tin Pan Alley. Give them a hand! Musicals stage a comeback. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” tidily wraps serial murder into an operetta packet with a big ribbon of farce. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Tony’s establishing song, “Too Much Drama in My Life,” is a hearty operetta parody. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z You seem very interested in opéra comique and operetta, traditions of music theater that many big opera houses shy away from. It’s ‘Carmen.’ But Not Like You’ve Ever Seen It. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Broadway, crucially, plugged in decades ago, even for musicals rooted in operetta and cabaret. Rock Music Becomes the Mainstay of Broadway Musicals 2010-05-14T23:36:00Z Located somewhere near Germany and Bohemia, connected by railroad with Dresden, Ruritania is — on the surface — the sort of country you might associate with a Viennese operetta. Review | The most romantic novel you’ve never read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z "It's the story of a mayoral election in a small Southern town, but — how can I describe it? It's black vaudeville meets operetta meets Southern folkloric humor meets Ziegfeld Follies." How 'Shuffle Along' director George C. Wolfe brought back the 1921 show that changed Broadway forever 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z When operetta first came to New York that had a huge influence on music theater. An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z An admired conductor of both Wagner and contemporary works – he led the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande, which Debussy dedicated to him – he also wrote a clutch of operas, ballets, operettas and musical comedies. Fortunio – review 2013-07-11T17:43:00Z Plus now he and Kander are clearly committed to another show, a period French comedy that they can’t divulge until the rights are secured, but that would move them toward operetta. Kander’s second act: Kander and Pierce, with new musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z And in 1954, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” was turned into an operetta called “After the Ball” by none other than Noël Coward. A Guide to the NY Phil Biennial From Our Critics and Reporters 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The reviewer for the Times wrote, “Wonderful is the nearest adjective. . . . Oklahoma! could be called a folk operetta; but whatever it is, it’s very good.” An “Oklahoma!” for Today 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Johann Strauss II's operetta might be about revenge, but it's not dastardly, it's frothy. Die Fledermaus ? review 2011-02-14T21:45:00Z As titles like Glamorous Night and King's Rhapsody suggest, Novello's work harked back to 19th-century operetta while Coward, for all his conservatism, was in touch with the febrile neuroticism of the 20th century. The Two Most Perfect Things – review 2012-07-09T17:37:06Z Of the four nominees for Best Musical, only one has a wholly original score: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak’s poison-laced pastiche of British operetta. Michael Schulman: Who Should Win at This Year’s Tony Awards? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z After all this, I needed a play that concludes in marital joy – a Shakespeare comedy, or maybe an operetta. Unhappily ever after: theatre weddings can drive you away from the altar 2011-02-15T14:13:22Z As an opera, or an operetta or a musical, however you want to describe it, Candide has its problems. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z Adding some musical edge to the season, Todd Almond and Courtney Love will bring the romantic, angsty operetta “Kansas City Choir Boy” to the Kirk Douglas this fall. Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z While still in his teens, he began singing with the operetta club. Murray Gershenz, Record Store Owner and Character Actor, Dies at 91 2013-09-08T00:38:17Z The former went against the wishes of his father, composer Johann Strauss, by becoming a 19th-century master of waltzes and operettas. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z The bright, giddy environments of the Hypocrites’ operettas are designed to evoke the delight and astonishment that the original audiences experienced. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z From 1959 to 1979, Mr. Reed was the principal comedian of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, the London professional troupe founded in the 1870s to stage the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. John Reed, Master of Gilbert and Sullivan?s Patter Songs, Dies at 94 2010-02-28T04:19:00Z I find these new versions add an extra kick to the operetta while maintaining deference to originators. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Puccini’s “La Rondine” was a grand, nearly thwarted experiment: The opera marked the composer’s first foray into the lighter, commercially viable form of operetta that he generally shunned. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Gilbert and Sullivan buffs will either love or hate these highconcept and super-fast shows, each an 80-minute blitz through the beloved operettas. Gilbert and Sullivan with guitars and beach balls 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z But mostly when aiming for drollery, the songwriters overshoot and wind up at operetta. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Before he took to science fiction, Verne provided librettos for Parisian operetta, and Pip Leckenby's design has a velvet-swagged, vaudevillian look. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2010-06-02T21:01:00Z They sing opera, operetta, Broadway musicals and Danish, Swedish and Icelandic folk songs, often in lighthearted fashion. Classical roundup: a Bernstein tribute and a summer-garden series 2010-06-17T20:19:00Z The show was impeccably cast with singers whose affinities to gramophone and operetta styles of the era helped bridge the gap between then and now. Music Review: ‘Sweepin’ the Clouds Away’ Lifts Spirits at 92nd Street Y 2014-02-23T21:45:05Z Puccini’s “La Bohème,” a natural for young people, and Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus,” an operetta with a cynical adult edge to its humor, are this year’s offerings. Classical Music Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z And that in the realm of operetta, nothing, for me, tops “Candide.” Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Hitler also adored Franz Lehár's light operettas because he was a petit-bourgeois Austrian from the sticks, and that's what people like him, from there, at that time, loved. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z Yet she, too, seemed not quite comfortable singing her first operetta role in a house that she knows is just too large for the intimate performance she is trying to give. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Wheeler wrote the book for this “black operetta,” in which revenge is a meat pie served piping hot, and made from the title character’s dismembered victims. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “Gentleman’s Guide” struggled mightily to raise money, given its seemingly noncommercial profile: an old-fashioned operetta about an Englishman bumping off daffy relatives to get the family fortune. On Broadway Today, a Name Above the Title Isn’t That Hard to Get 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In reworking Gay’s original operetta of the dispossessed for angry Weimar Germany, Brecht and Weill pushed the era a hundred years forward, from London in the 18th century to the time of Queen Victoria’s coronation. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z Meant as a comment on the unfulfilled promise of feminism, the story just seemed silly, with its portentous murk and operetta high jinks. My Summer With Hal 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z At the premiere on Monday of the latest chapters of "Trapped in the Closet," R. Kelly's epic operetta, Mr. Kelly, the R&B star, announced that a Broadway version was in the works. ArtsBeat: R. Kelly Discusses Theatrical Adaptation of 'Trapped in the Closet' 2012-11-20T17:57:04Z Before embarking on their current metamorphoses, the two of them met halfway — in operetta, when they appeared together in “The Merry Widow” at the Met in 2014. An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z At the Salzburg Festival, operetta has had its ups and downs. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Chesterton have described the operetta as a satire of England, its vision of a nonsensical and bloodthirsty ersatz-Japan can strike modern sensibilities as offensive. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But it’s operetta played with guitars and banjos and in a fun way, with the Hypocrites theater company. Can this man save the Pasadena Playhouse? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z “Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z She was born in Budapest, where her father, Imre Roboz, was the manager of the Vígszínház theatre, which specialised in operetta in a city that particularly relished this form of entertainment. Zsuzsi Roboz obituary 2012-07-19T16:51:52Z At another point, buttoned-up Lucy, whose only emotional vent is pounding out Beethoven piano sonatas, pours out her feelings in “Ludwig and I,” an over-the-top fantasy out of a comic operetta. A visit to romance and Italy in ‘Room with a View’ 2014-05-03T00:30:45Z But here’s the original genius of the music: Instead of borrowing from the fast jazz rhythms of the 1930s, Coleman looks to the fragrantly ripe operettas of the likes of Sigmund Romberg and Victor Herbert. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The third was a young Irish poet whose lectures on interior design and Gothic art formed an elaborate publicity stunt for a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z A grand operetta on the vagaries of romantic love, “A Little Night Music” is no small undertaking. The sublime Merle Dandridge is a musical theater dream come true in 'A Little Night Music' 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z You can ask them to rewrite Queen’s pop operetta, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” so that it rhapsodizes about the life of a postdoc academic researcher, and they will. The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z ‘Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert’ The Strauss Symphony of America and a cohort of singers and dancers perform classic waltzes and operetta selections by Johann Strauss II in this festive offering. Hello, 2023! Celebrate with our list of 13 fun things to do this New Year's weekend 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now. Review | Broadway’s ‘& Juliet’ pops with a cheeky supply of snap and crackle 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z And they wrote and performed an operetta sharing their story. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Referring to a popular operetta of the time, suffragists called the league “the Chocolate Soldier brigade.” 'Votes for women!' — 110 years ago marked the first time in California 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z That dismissal she traces in part to an ill-advised choice of roles: Rosalinde in Johann Strauss Jr.’s frothy operetta “Die Fledermaus.” Met Opera to open season with dark, murderous ‘Medea’ 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z But unlike a Broadway musical or operetta, the drama is resolved in music. Review: Beethoven remade as Black Lives Matter music at the Broad Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z After that brush with glory, Mr. Poitier said he felt forced to take a leap backward in the 1959 film version of the George and Ira Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk operetta “Porgy and Bess.” Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win Oscar for best actor, dies at 94 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z This weekend, for the first time since 1945, the operetta is being performed. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z He can spread the schmaltz in Viennese operetta as thick as you like. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “Le 66” Mission Opera stages four outdoor performances of Offenbach’s one-act comic operetta. Pride Month events with Lil Nas X and Dolly lead our list of weekend culture 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Rulers and military leaders, driven by venal self-interest, are often buffoonish characters in a grand comic operetta. Unraveling of the American empire: A series of military debacles point toward a tragic end 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “The 20-minute drum solos. Songs were a big operetta, and they were sort of boring. They lost their sex appeal.” Sylvain Sylvain, guitarist for glam-punk icons New York Dolls, dies at 69 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z “We feel that this is incredibly significant,” said Marilynn Smiley, president of Oswego Opera Theater, which is producing the operetta, noting that the issues it raised about how the country treats refugees remain relevant. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z There was more Liszt, Richard Strauss’ “Nichts” and sugary Viennese operetta sending us home humming, the poison two hours earlier seeming to have been nothing more than a placebo. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z We are facing a formal operetta to delay declaring Biden the next president. Introducing the Congressional un-American activities caucus 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Salute to Vienna and Budapest” This annual New Year’s touring production presents an encore concert heavy on Strauss waltzes and operetta favorites. 14 virtual New Year's Eve parties, with Steve Aoki, Demi Lovato, TikTok stars and more 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z For those consumed by football’s weekly operetta it seems axiomatic that domestic competitions must be completed, that the world turns on these certainties. Cursed Euro 2020 might just give us what we need next year | Barney Ronay 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z They decided to write an operetta as a dramatic plea for their freedom. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who oversaw President Clinton’s trial, was a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and festooned his robe with four gold stripes to mimic the Lord Chancellor in “Iolanthe.” Trade deals, Trump impeachment trial showcase 'Washington whiplash' at its finest 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Salute to Vienna The Strauss Symphony of America returns with a cohort of singers and dancers to perform classic waltzes, operetta selections, etc., by Johann Strauss II. Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Last chance to see 'Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake' and more dance and classical music in L.A. 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Years later, reflecting on his role in the Clinton impeachment trial, Rehnquist was self-deprecating, borrowing a line from a favorite Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Can Trump challenge his impeachment in the Supreme Court? 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z What is certain is that Sterling is finding his own limits and there will no doubt be more fallout from this overblown operetta. Gareth Southgate was right to lay down marker over Raheem Sterling | Barney Ronay 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The operetta was performed on New Year’s Eve with a hastily added new finale incorporating the good news about their fate. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The Strauss Symphony of America returns with a cohort of singers and dancers to perform classic waltzes, operetta selections, etc., by Johann Strauss II in the ever-effervescent “Salute to Vienna.” Nutcracker and more live theater events this season 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z He takes on forgotten, bittersweet operettas from the dying embers of the art form that reflected the last rays of laughter through the tears of a Germany heading toward the Third Reich. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z This is a Spanish operetta Domingo had first appeared in 65 years earlier at 13 in his parents’ Mexico City company as the bullfighter, making the two roles bookends to an illustrious career . Commentary: What sexual harassment allegations against Placido Domingo could mean for opera culture 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Lucy Simon’s songs sound like early 20th century operetta here, British folk music there, with a fondness for robust choruses. Review: ‘Secret Garden’ in Cerritos is bountiful but still gets lost in the weeds 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Smiley began searching archival collections for the text of the operetta, without success. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The Shaiman-Wittman songs never do catch on, whether infused with operetta, pop, hip-hop or metal. Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ has interesting ingredients but blah taste 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The production is a dismaying, yet magnificent, overthrowing of the Offenbach typically presented as an innocuously charming wit who gave the world the light entertainment of operetta. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z In 1999, Leigh released “Topsy-Turvy,” a story about the stormy relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan, the gifted British composers of operettas in the late 19th century. Director Mike Leigh breaks his own mold for the ambitious and expensive ‘Peterloo’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In the early 1980s, Ms. Ballard was back in New York, appearing on Broadway in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “The Pirates of Penzance.” Kaye Ballard, comic actress and singer from vaudeville to TV, dies at 93 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Smiley wanted Oswego Opera Theater to stage a performance of the operetta, but the music was incomplete. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The Strauss Symphony of America and a cohort of singers and dancers perform classic waltzes and operetta selections by Johann Strauss II in the return of the annual “Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert.” New Year’s celebrations: Grand Park and the Groundlings, Johann Strauss and Dita von Teese 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z To make a French operetta immediate to an Austrian audience, Kosky wanted the dialogue spoken in German and the sung parts in French. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z The emotional ballad was inspired by a 1915 children’s operetta titled “Over the Rainbow.” ‘The Wizard of Oz’ secrets you probably haven’t heard 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The clues are the posters pasted to the front of the theater for promoting “Spring Maid,” a Viennese-inspired operetta on its West Coast tour. The Metropolitan Theatre set the stage for an Olympic expansion 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The operetta traces the plight of the refugees, their journey to the United States and their lives in Oswego. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z But the show somehow hit a nerve with an East German audience that otherwise had a special love for escapist Viennese operetta. Critic's Notebook: As anti-Semitic hate crimes rise, a German production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' preaches tolerlance - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Offenbach’s “Orphée,” the first operetta and the precursor of the whole genre of music theater, is, however, an unabashed parody of the dour seriousness of mythic opera. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Along the way she also sang and acted the lead female role in Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta “The Pirates of Penzance” in New York for veteran theater producer Joseph Papp. No longer singing, Linda Ronstadt's latest tour is a conversation with the audience - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The troupe has produced the Gilbert & Sullivan canon of 13 full operettas numerous times, and over the decades has raised millions of dollars for New York City charities. Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture! A Leaner Gilbert & Sullivan Troupe Turns 94. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The goal isn’t to present a historical reenactment of the operetta exactly as it was originally performed, said Benjamin Spierman, stage director for Oswego Opera Theater. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z In other words, did he take it back to European operetta or push it in new directions? Andrew Lloyd Webber at 70: how a ruthless perfectionist became Mr Musical 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z At Sidwell, she directed her third and fourth graders in the writing of a libretto and producing an annual springtime operetta. Washington-area obituaries of note 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z But this being an outlandish operetta, the romance is riddled with obstacles. 'Pirates of Penzance,' with a piña colada: Gilbert & Sullivan plays as interactive party 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Oh what glorious chaos it was, as the Blue Hill Troupe prepared for its umpteenth performance of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture! A Leaner Gilbert & Sullivan Troupe Turns 94. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The central themes raised in the operetta about how the country deals with immigrants and refugees are as relevant today as they were then, he said. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Based on Voltaire's novel parodying the 18th century notion of optimism in God's benevolence, it began as an operetta for Broadway written in collaboration with playwright Lillian Hellman. 'Candide' on the coast, Part 1: San Francisco finds a spiritual glow in Bernstein's music – LA Times 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “It’s as if we’re all performers in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,” the judge said. Pace of executions in California may be up to Gov. Jerry Brown 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Inducted into the mysteries of Wagner by his music-loving grandfather, he gravitated to music via school choir and work as a teenage extra in staged operettas. A “revealing” look at Jonas Kaufmann pulls all punches 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Unlike grand opera, in which all parts are sung, Opéra Comique intersperses song with spoken dialogue, like operetta in Britain or singspiel in Germany. With acrobats and cake, a Paris Opera celebrates its rebirth 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Unlike grand opera, in which all parts are sung, opéra comique intersperses song with spoken dialogue, like operetta in Britain or singspiel in Germany. With Acrobats and Cake, a Paris Opera Celebrates Its Rebirth 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z In the second act, the operetta starts to lose its buoyancy. 'Candide' on the coast, Part 1: San Francisco finds a spiritual glow in Bernstein's music – LA Times 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z She was born Nedenia Hutton in New York City, and was drawn to the acting life at age 8, when she played an Indian in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta at Greenvale School. Dina Merrill, heiress and actress, dead at 93 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Justice Sandra Day O’Connor recalled that the former Chief Justice William Rehnquist was inspired by a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta to add gold stripes to one sleeve. North Korea, Turkey, ‘Girls’: Your Monday Briefing 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “Look the hallway is ours, look the coat rack is ours! The whole flat is ours, ours! The kitchen too is ours, ours!” sang the main characters in a 1962 film based on the operetta. Moscow's big move: is this the biggest urban demolition project ever? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z An ode, operetta or full-blown ballad where the main character bursts into song revealing their innermost desires. Which Disney character has the best 'I Want' song? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In rejecting the realm of cynical operetta, Tilson Thomas' "Candide" became something, to my knowledge, it had never been before: an authentic spiritual journey. 'Candide' on the coast, Part 1: San Francisco finds a spiritual glow in Bernstein's music – LA Times 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Jun Takahashi of Undercover showed his collection in what was more akin to a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta than a runway show. Analysis | Say goodbye to luxury yoga pants. Fashion wants you to try harder this fall. 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Robert Rempe was 21, student-teaching at a North Scranton Junior High School, when he first saw “Rose of the Danube”, a two act operetta written in the 1930s. A Theater-Lover’s Quest to Perform ‘Rose of the Danube’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The sound that Miranda found for Hamilton whizzes together a short lifetime of musical enthusiasms, melding hardcore and operetta, the American songbook and the British invasion. Lin-Manuel Miranda: the bard of Broadway 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z “His favorites were Hungarian songs and operettas and he said ‘You call this music, son?’” Hungarian musicians recall secret jazz recordings from 1956 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z "It is the finest of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. There isn't a weak moment in it," he says. Gilbert and Sullivan's original Yeomen of the Guard score published - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z An operetta ensued, in which the Brazilian star writhed on the pitch and was carted off on a stretcher only to return minutes later and play on. Led by Neymar, Brazil routs Honduras to move one win from men’s soccer gold 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z That’s especially true for, but not exclusive to, fans of British murder mysteries, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and highly diverting theatrical high jinks. A ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ to dandy wit — and murder — at 5th Avenue Theatre 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Sousa set off a lot of goose pimples: He wrote more than 130 marches, 15 operettas and 70 songs, according to Grove Music Online. John Philip Sousa IV, With Help From a Famous Surname, Dabbles in Politics 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z She enjoyed singing operetta as my dad accompanied her on piano. German Performer Ute Lemper’s Cold War Childhood 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The most simple definition is that operetta is light opera with acting, while musical theatre is plays with singing and dancing. From Broadway to France's boulevards: how Paris fell in love with musicals 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The show will also feature opera, operetta, musical numbers, music from the Mediterranean and songs from the Belle Époque, with Carreras accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Spanish tenor Carreras to sing 'A Life in Music' in London 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Shostakovich composed an operetta titled after the district, satirising Muscovites’ desperate desire to move there; it was adapted into a colour film in 1963. Moscow's suburbs may look monolithic, but the stories they tell are not 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In Germany, she made friends with a Russian composer, and wrote, for his amusement only, a libretto for an operetta—in rhymed couplets, in German. Bricklayer, Bird-Watcher, Literary Sensation 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The Sound of Music was not the ill wind that Kael detected but the last gasp of the studio system’s belief in G-rated operettas of inspirational uplift. Can Even a Cranky Guy Fall for 'The Sound of Music'? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It is somewhat akin to the title of the Johann Strauss operetta “Die Fledermaus,” which also entailed some mischief. A scandal-naming primer 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z O’Hara, known for her sweet soprano voice, interpretive gifts and open-hearted personality, is currently appearing in Franz Lehar’s popular operetta “The Merry Widow.” Musical comedy star finding success in opera 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “The Met in High Definition: ‘The Merry Widow,’ ” screening of the operetta starring Renée Fleming. Events in Westchester for Jan. 18-24, 2015 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Quoting from the operetta “The Mikado,” Judge Schwelb wrote, “My object all sublime / I shall achieve in time / To let the punishment fit the crime / The punishment fit the crime.” Frank E. Schwelb, a civil rights lawyer who became a D.C. judge, dies at 82 “Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride” Capitol Hill Arts Workshop stages another slightly twisted Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Aug. 7-13, 2014 In her book, “The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado,” Josephine Lee, a University of Minnesota professor, examines the history of this operetta and dissects these stereotypes. Guest: Making ‘The Mikado’ without Asian stereotypes 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Dawkins is an experienced lecturer, debater and public speaker, but has not appeared in a theatrical production since taking a leading role in Cecil Cook's comic operetta The Willow Pattern at the age of 13. Infidelio: Richard Dawkins makes operatic debut 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z For decades, she practically owned the title role in Lehar’s most famous operetta, “The Merry Widow”; she sang it thousands of times, often opposite her husband, the celebrated Polish tenor Jan Kiepura. Marta Eggerth, ‘the Callas of Operetta,’ Dies at 101 2013-12-31T02:43:09Z In the piece on Offenbach, the writer tries to depict Offenbach’s character by describing the composer as constantly interrupting the interview to talk to and about singers he is auditioning for his next operetta. Press Adds ‘What if?’ to Five W’s in France 2013-08-29T00:21:21Z A sense of duty: it was both a theme of the comic operetta and of the evening itself. Scene City: The Stars Come Out for Shakespeare in the Park 2013-06-12T20:02:56Z Dig a little deeper, scrape beneath the operetta of conflicting cardigan-clad ambition, and there are some depressing editorial decisions being made. Colin Murray loses battle of bland as 'Chappers' sidles on to MOTD2 sofa 2013-01-22T16:46:14Z Mr. Sheffer saw the theatrical arts as a huge adventure, and his bookings over 32 years reflected it; there were operettas, African dance and political satire. Isaiah Sheffer, 76, a Founder of Symphony Space, Dies 2012-11-11T05:07:36Z Miss Eggerth, who began singing as a child in her native Hungary and became a star as a teenager in Vienna in the period known as the Silver Age of operetta. Marta Eggerth, ‘the Callas of Operetta,’ Dies at 101 2013-12-31T02:43:09Z We also have to sit through an intentionally bad chestnut from a comic operetta scene — “The Moon Song” — when none would have been preferable. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Mame’ at the Goodspeed Opera House 2012-06-09T00:41:19Z “It’s an easy prescription,” the villager replies, repeating the signature line of the operetta. The Lede Blog: Ad Wars Ahead of Egyptian Presidential Vote 2012-05-08T18:39:25Z Circuit Court in Illinois, when the use of the title "Erminie" was held to be unlawful, though the operetta originally designated by the title had not been copyrighted. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z Our repertory consisted of a striking drama entitled "All for Her," a touching comedy called "Masters and Servants," and an operetta known as "Tom Tug the Waterman." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Of much greater importance than these is an operetta to German words by Kotzebue, called Fanchon, an admirable specimen of the primitive form of the musical drama known in Germany as the Singspiel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z If the tenant were a puppeteer or a composer of avant-garde operettas, we could rationalize her good fortune by arguing that the city ought to be a place hospitable to eccentric creativity. Big City: Rent-Regulation Wars Are Only a Sideshow to Housing Problems 2012-03-10T16:01:47Z During the summer season the theatrical opportunities of Madrid are mainly limited to the popular zarzuelas, or operettas, four of which are usually given in an evening. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Dramatico-musical compositions include principally operas, operettas, and musical comedies, or similar productions which are to be acted as well as sung. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z As a result, musical plays, operettas, and finally a new type, the "melodrame," flourished in the minor houses and found their way soon into the two great theatres. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z But much more important are his operettas, 14 in number, which for a long time retained their place on the boards, and had considerable influence on the development of light dramatic music in Germany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Expectations had been raised by her voice, and when she returned to Marseilles she sang in operetta, besides acting in Ruy Blas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The short cantatas and little operettas run from $4 a hundred to 35 cents apiece, and in very few cases higher than 40 cents. Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906. 2011-12-08T03:00:30.010Z Ordinary songs, even when intended to be sung from the stage in a dramatic manner, or separately published songs from operas and operettas, should be registered as musical compositions, not dramatico-musical compositions. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z He wrote the libretto of Mendelssohn's operetta known as "Son and Stranger"; and nine of Mendelssohn's songs are set to words by Klingemann. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z It is a simple little operetta in one act by Victor Macci. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Her Paris d�but was in La Chaste Suzanne at the Palais Royal, and she was again heard in operetta at the Renaissance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z They go ahead and produce that musical operetta. Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906. 2011-12-08T03:00:30.010Z Dramatico-musical compositions include principally operas, operettas, and musical comedies, or similar productions which are to be acted as well as sung. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z The cartoons in “Punch” or Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta “Patience,” mocking the ultra-refined, velvet-clad aesthetes, were mild compared with other attacks on the “fleshly school of poetry,” as one critic called them. Lewd Wilde, Amoral Beauty-Seekers Boost D’Orsay Revamp: Review 2011-11-09T14:58:14Z The piece was called Country Pleasures, an operetta. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Viardot, sang an Italian aria, in addition to taking part in the operetta. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z At seventeen he made his d�but on the stage at Cadiz, in an operetta, in which were included songs of his own composition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Songs separately published Ordinary songs, even when intended to be sung from the stage in a dramatic manner, or separately published songs from operas and operettas, should be registered as musical compositions, not dramatico-musical compositions. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z It is the 100th anniversary of the death of WS Gilbert - the man who wrote the lyrics of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. VIDEO: A tour of the Gilbert and Sullivan festival 2011-08-03T06:46:16Z His wife said, half weeping, half laughing, that he seemed to her a Tewlin, a celebrated comic actor who filled the r�le designated to-day as the "king of operetta." Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Of the men, Jean Geraldy is deserving of mention, since he afterwards became well known both as vocalist in the operas of Rossini and as a composer of many popular songs and operettas. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Has he ever tried to run away since the night of the operetta?” Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z The Village Coquettes, an operetta represented at the St. James’s Theatre, with music by Hullah, was an equally unpretending effort. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z She led in all the athletic sports, was quite a wonderful musician and had composed an operetta for her class and most of the music for the class songs. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z The English owe a debt of gratitude to their compatriots for having dethroned burlesque and operetta, two imports from France which competed with the national manufacture. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z We talked of it last year, after Christmas, and again after we gave the operetta. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z Now she said rather timidly, “I hope you didn’t mind because I spoke of the operetta and Charlie’s running away, Connie?” Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z An ordinary theatrical manager brings out some trivial operetta which, thanks in a great measure to scenery, upholstery, costumes, and a liberal display of the female form divine, catches the taste of the public. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z They make opera—even the frivolous opera of the hardworking Harry B. Smith, who has what William J. Henderson calls the "operetta libretto habit"—seem real. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z The operetta, too, is vegetating; the pantomime serves hardly to amuse the children. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z You know how well she behaved when Laurie gave her back her part in the operetta last Spring. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z And only three days before the operetta, too. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z "We look like a light opera - not an opera but an operetta," she says. Standing by their man? 2011-04-04T23:45:11Z It is the same old thing that has served in many operettas. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Burlesque is the English form, under an un-English name, of that kind of musical parody in which we French used at that time to delight, and of which the operetta was born. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z But the outbreak of the revolution in 1830 caused his return home, where he busied himself writing chamber-music and operetta until he was able to return to Paris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Not any more so than half of Sanford will be when they hear the operetta’s been postponed. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z The operetta--an unpublished effort of course--by a Russian amateur of rank who was very proud of not even knowing his notes, was soon cast. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z She has appeared in only one operetta aside from "The Belle,"—"An American Beauty," brought out in London by an American company in April, 1900. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z They had about resolved to surrender the operetta, which was to be performed for a charitable object, to a professional when Pistasch proposed his old Theresanium comrade, Eugene. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The operetta has only three acts, and is followed by no farce or afterpiece. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z We don’t wish anything to occur to spoil the rest of the operetta. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z This operetta evidently enjoyed more than a succes d'estime, and further writing in this line was confidently expected from him by his friends. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Later she went to Vienna, where she received further instruction, and also made a successful appearance in a one-act operetta. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Only two years ago young aristocrats invited him exclusively to stag parties, hunts, etc.; then Count F---- wrote a little operetta for a society tenor. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z At Cornell, he was an enthusiastic performer in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Alfred Kahn, Father of 1970s Airline Deregulation, Dies at 93 2010-12-28T12:57:23Z “You mustn’t go out of the dressing room or upstairs again until the operetta is over,” she dictated. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Documents unearthed by the retrospective’s researchers show Berg engaged with the creators of opera, operetta, cabaret and popular music. | Westchester: 2 Weekends to Explore the World of Alban Berg 2010-07-31T00:16:00Z In grammar school he developed an interest in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, encouraged by his school’s practice of regularly staging productions of the works. Charles Mackerras, Elegant Conductor, Dies at 84 2010-07-16T05:12:00Z The tenor, a young diplomat, after the first rehearsal of the operetta was transferred to Constantinople--universal consternation. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z "Mrs. Pangborn has granted permission and we are about to select the operetta—it will be a musical affair this time." Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School Fortunately for her plans, the members of her team had showed no great amount of prejudice 220 against her since the affair of the operetta. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z His knowledge of the subject was far from scientific, but he produced an operetta which was not unsuccessful, and, but for his singular temperament, he might have followed up the success. A Short History of French Literature New operettas like the "Merry Widow" were also produced, and, if successful, ran eight or ten times during the seven months of the season. Confessions of an Opera Singer He worked for a time in a shoemaker's shop, sang in the archbishop's choir and, at the age of seventeen, joined a local operetta company. Interpreters In fact the whole tale suggests the elements of a humorous melodrama or operetta, a bourgeois gentilhomme. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series She caused me a great deal of unnecessary unhappiness and she almost made Constance lose her part in the operetta. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z The third, Rousseau, who lived to denounce the theatre, wrote a short operetta, Le Devin du Village, which is not without merit. A Short History of French Literature All the leading contralto work came to me by right, and it was brightened by an occasional r�le in operetta. Confessions of an Opera Singer The reaction against French influence, however, was no less apparent in the domain of melodrama and operetta than in that of comedy and drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" On the 21st of May 1762 his first work, an operetta entitled The Shepherd’s Artifice, with words and music by himself, was produced at this theatre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" I’m going to the theatre with you just the same and watch the silly operetta 190 from behind the scenes. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z The musician used to gaze sorrowfully at the manuscript of his operetta, Aline, Queen of Golconda, with its corners all torn off. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Our operetta tenor played the whole season in the same shirt, powdering the bosom freshly each evening with a yellowish powder which he used for his face. Confessions of an Opera Singer On the 11th of May, 1867, was first heard in public his comic operetta, “Cox and Box.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Thereafter, the dance music, operettas, vaudeville songs, and ragtime were played. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative The knowledge that the proceeds from the operetta were 191 to be devoted to school use, rallied the Sanfordites to the cause. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z And he spoke at length of an operetta at which he was working and which he hoped to have brought out at a Paris theatre. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels One of our "comics" in Metz had to fish at the back of the stage in an operetta. Confessions of an Opera Singer In 1842 he became conductor at Drury Lane Theatre, and while acting in that capacity brought out one of his operettas, called “The Queen of the Thames.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers He also wrote the words and music of several operettas. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 If ever I compose another operetta, I’ll let somebody else manage it. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Included in the domestic programs were twelve daily newscasts, children's programs, theatrical presentations, operettas, and other types of cultural programs. Area Handbook for Albania During the tour season it is still frequently placed on the boards of that theater, with all the scenic appurtenances of an operetta. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 His earlier works were an operetta called “Garibaldi,” a fantasie-sonata and piano concerto, a few pieces of chamber music, and a symphony in C minor. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers How different she is from the geisha of fiction, of operettas, and of story-books, which is the only geisha that the stay-at-home Englishman can know! Japan A Record in Colour Now that we’ve made over five hundred dollars out of the operetta for the library, you know we’ve been talking about getting up a club. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z The choir-boys, past and present, perform an operetta in costume every Christmas. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. This elicited the information that she felt similarly as to her profession; and when I made bold to inquire what that profession might be, I was slightly staggered by the rejoinder, "The operetta." The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) They liked, too, the zarzuelas, the operettas of one act, largely improvised with local allusions. The Bright Shawl It is especially to its music that the operetta owes its success. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Being in the operetta has given her a little start. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Mr. Arthur Sullivan had, in conjunction with Mr. F. C. Burnand, converted the well-known farce of “Box and Cox” into an operetta of the most ludicrous description. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Now, if she had said opera, it wouldn't have been so bad, for one associates with the opera something grand, massive, and substantial; but she didn't fit in with "operetta" at all. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) Unfortunately, the green-room was the too frequent study of the youth; for his father's fame and income were chiefly derived from the composition of operetta songs, for which Theodore usually wrote the libretti. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 But there is also no doubt that the dramatisation of Maid Marian by Planch� and Bishop as an operetta helped, if it did not make, its fame. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 A whole lot of the Sanfordites were disappointed last year because they couldn’t get into the theatre to see the operetta. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z All the time that 'Irene' was going on, the Queen laughed and chattered, but as soon as the operetta began, she was all attention, her example, of course, being followed by everyone in her box. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly A mass of color, pleasing and confused, revolved languorously to those strains of the Viennese operetta in which the waltz might be said to have finished the autocracy of its long reign. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The conflicting din of organs, pianos and violins, of ballad, scale and operetta, though discordant to the actual ear have a harmony which is not lost to her spiritual sense. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 "I go to opera and operetta simply to see you, Imperial Highness." Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess She grew grave with the thought that the operetta would have to be postponed. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z “There isn’t time to get up an operetta, I suppose?” ventured Fauvette. The Madcap of the School He with Charles L�cocq won the Offenbach prize for the best operetta while Bizet was as yet a youth, and from that time his art gained in strength and beauty. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces The cantata is really a sort of one-act operetta—a jocose production representing the efforts of a stern parent to check his daughter's propensities in coffee drinking, the new fashioned habit. All About Coffee Then Bobbie Lawsher, who writes books and operettas and things—rather amusing he is, but becoming more and more of a snob every day. The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations For these occasions she had carefully instructed fifty young girls to perform the beautiful cantata of "Laila, the Fairy Queen," a juvenile operetta. Music and Some Highly Musical People Constance received the account of Mignon's attempt to supplant her in the operetta with no trace of resentment. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore I have spoken of the French operettas and comedies. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Two operettas, a piano concerto and a number of published pianoforte pieces and songs do little more than show how great was his promise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" They were very serious and never smiled, and even in burlesque operettas they acted without gaiety and with a businesslike air, as though they were engaged in bookkeeping. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories The presentation of the operetta of 'Laila' at City Hall, on Wednesday evening, was a very gratifying success.... Music and Some Highly Musical People The knowledge that her unfairness was to cost her her own part in the operetta aroused her to action. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore They generally produce German operas sung by foreign singers, and French comedies and operettas. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Besides this he composed two operettas, three song plays, three other stage pieces, four masses and several cantatas. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Again Tanrade played—this time it was the second act of his new operetta. A Village of Vagabonds Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta is perhaps the most potent document for democracy since the Communist Manifesto! Penguin Persons & Peppermints Lawrence Armitage's operetta had been an artistic as well as a financial success. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore You can walk about in the lobby and say proudly that you attended the first performance of the opera ever so long ago when operettas had tune and reason. The Merry-Go-Round “And tableaux and an operetta take just as much time to rehearse,” mused Polly, thinking very hard if there wasn't something to keep them from the dreaded recitations. Five Little Peppers at School You would never guess this sturdy, broad-shouldered man has created delicious music—fairy ballets, pantomimes, and operettas. A Village of Vagabonds F. C. B., as I have said, has treated this baker theme and developed it regularly in his amusing operetta “Pickwick.” Bardell v. Pickwick He had come to Sanford for a period of relaxation before going to New York to begin rehearsals with a summer show, and the prospect of directing the operetta promised to be amusing. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore On the days when no operettas were played and the choruses were free, she went to the Summer Theater and there, squeezed high up in the gallery, spent entire evenings dreaming. The Comedienne “And I just loathe an operetta or tableaux,” exclaimed Jasper, with such venom that Polly burst out laughing. Five Little Peppers at School But the most memorable part of the wedding festivities, and that to which Lodovico himself devoted especial attention, was the performance of an operetta composed by the court poet Bellincioni for the occasion. Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 In this year he wrote a violin sonata and two clavier sonatas, a little cantata, and an operetta. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations It would hurt his feelings dreadfully if you didn't try for a part in his operetta. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Janina began to laugh nervously, and said: "Such things are to be seen only in the operetta . . . well, and behind the scenes." The Comedienne "To an operetta King, a Queen of tragedy," she said, stern and terrible. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The operetta, which was really a spring festival, was to be given in the open-air amphitheater of the school, with the natural scenery of the woods and the lake for a background. The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Warren has written also various operettas, in which he shows a particular grasp of instrumentation, and an ability to give new turns of expression to his songs, while keeping them smooth and singable. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The proposed operetta became the chief topic for discussion as the unusually long week dragged interminably along toward that fateful Saturday. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore I feel that Mimi is going to chatter like a soubrette from an operetta. The Comedienne He wrote some thirty minor plays and the once popular operettas of 'The Shepherd's Artifice,' 'The Padlock,' 'The Quaker,' and 'The Waterman.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The operetta was charming, and splendidly performed; it was pronounced the prettiest thing ever given at Miss Allen's. The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Some compositions were read, and part of a little operetta was sung quite charmingly by the girls. A Little Girl in Old New York Now he dwelt only on the success of the operetta, and was distinctly relieved to find that Mignon was in an amiable frame of mind over the unexpected change in his plans. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore "About this . . . the operetta!" he cried, striking his knee. The Comedienne Every one says I have the voice for it, and I suppose I could make a hit in light operetta or vaudeville as well now as when I was a child. Flamsted quarries On the 11th of May, 1867, was first heard in public his little comic operetta "Cox and Box." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers "My friend," said Hillard, rather annoyed at the policeman's tone, "you don't think for an instant that I was directing this operetta?" The Lure of the Mask He had attended the try-out on the polite invitation of Professor Harmon, and at the latter's earnest solicitation had agreed to take charge of the stage direction of the operetta. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore They were giving a so-called "dramatic bouquet," or "as you like it," that is: a comic sketch, a one-act operetta, a scene from a drama and a solo dance. The Comedienne Certainly," the clock chimed in, "and they sing very pretty lullabies and very cunning operettas, too. The Holy Cross and Other Tales We sang mostly the innocent old songs, American or English, of an earlier day, and sometimes the decorous numbers from the self-respecting operetta recently established in London. On the Stairs The mottoes are sometimes specially apposite to the chapters to which they are prefixed; but more frequently to the general scope, or, to borrow a musical term, the motivo of the operetta. Gryll Grange It had pleased his fancy to assume the charge of the staging of the operetta, but now he was growing rather tired of it and wished that it were over. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore In the meanwhile they were playing only operettas, for they filled the theater. The Comedienne The imposing building of the Deutsche Theatre was crammed with Germans who took pleasure in a characteristic sentimental operetta. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 The wedding party fell upon her with reproaches while the orchestra gave a spirited rendition of "Going Up," the aviation operetta of the day. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date The French Baron Munchausen is represented by M. de Crac, the hero of a French operetta. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Long before this he and Mignon had come to a definite understanding regarding the operetta. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Mrs. Julian Marshall, born at Rome, has produced several orchestral works, as well as several cantatas, an operetta, a nocturne for clarinet and orchestra, and a number of songs. Woman's Work in Music Two evenings spent at the theatre at Prague were curiously in contrast: one at the German National Theatre, to hear "The Blue Mazurka," by Lehar, author of "The Merry Widow," and other less entertaining operettas. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 They had got up an operetta of Robin Hood, and appeared clad in the orthodox foresters' costume of Lincoln green, with bows, arrows, and quivers. The Jolliest School of All The performance of these operettas was not accompanied by action, the rule being for some one to read the dialogue at the piano, whilst the chorus were seated round the dining-table. Story-Lives of Great Musicians Deciding he had had enough of amateurs and amateur operettas, he mailed a note to Professor Harmon excusing himself from further service on the plea of a telegram summoning him to New York. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore In England, owing to the example of Gilbert and Sullivan, light operas and operettas have flourished to a considerable degree. Woman's Work in Music In lighter vein the traveller finds much more to delight him in the operettas of Berlin. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 I confess that at this time I did not know the Balkans and saw all these doings humorously, as a comic operetta. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle Felix was by this time composing a great deal, and, though little more than twelve years old, work of a more serious kind than the writing of operettas had been claiming his attention. Story-Lives of Great Musicians The operetta was to be sung in the Sanford Theatre, where the dress rehearsal had been held. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Mary Grant Carmichael met with some success through her operetta, "The Snow Queen," but like Miss Smyth gave the world a more important work in the shape of a mass. Woman's Work in Music The vulgarity of English musical comedies and imported operettas is lacking on the Berlin and Vienna stage. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 In Prague I took part every day in operas, operettas, plays, and farces. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Why, then, taboo the opera and jeopardize its existence, leaving the field to the frivolous operettas and farces? Chopin and Other Musical Essays Locked in his boyish heart was a secret knowledge that he had composed the operetta chiefly because he had wished Constance to have the opportunity of singing the part of the Princess. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore She has composed an operetta, "His Last Chance," besides vocal, choral, and violin pieces. Woman's Work in Music The libretto was founded on a forgotten French operetta, which again was adapted from Garrick and Colman's "Clandestine Marriage." Great Italian and French Composers His operetta entitled "Return from among Strangers" was his last production, with the exception of some lively songs and a few piano pieces of the "Lieder ohne Worte," or "Songs without Words," series. The Great German Composers They had composed and produced the little operetta of "Daphne," which had been performed in Florence in 1597. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. He brought the score of the operetta to Gray Gables last night and we tried it over on the piano. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore The list includes many dances and songs, two string quartettes, two piano quartettes, two quintettes, ten piano trios, eight violin sonatas, twelve overtures, Psalm 118 with orchestra, seven symphonies, and an operetta. Woman's Work in Music Till he is discovered the shaver wins no secure happiness, and in the search for the barber who has an elective affinity for the shaver may be found material for an operetta or an epic. Lost Leaders He could write an essay, preach a sermon, sit down to the piano and compose an operetta. Your Boys It was his business to rehearse the choruses for the operettas of Strauss and Millöcker. Musicians of To-Day The slight voice of the ordinary singer of operetta is insufficient for the part. Musical Memories Her works include piano trios, sonatas, and songs with piano and harp, besides the operetta, "La Belle Fermière," and the comic opera, "Ida." Woman's Work in Music Until 1872, Bizet wrote but small and unimportant works, such as “The Pearl Fisher,” “The Fair Maid of Perth,” and several vaudeville operettas, some of which he wrote to order and anonymously. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University These operettas were very popular, as the frequent editions of them which were called for, prove. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. I did hear there was some little disappointment that you did not get Lady Sybil's 'Soldiers' Marching Song' introduced at the New Theatre; but I dare say the composer wouldn't have his operetta interfered with. Prince Fortunatus As the good public cannot resign itself to getting along without gaiety, it goes to operetta and turns naturally to Offenbach who created it and furnished an inexhaustible supply. Musical Memories Among her operettas are "The Alchemist," also a version of the old French romance, "Fleurette," and an206 adaptation from Tennyson, called "Day Dreams." Woman's Work in Music One of the characters in the operetta was a duchess whose adventures afforded the audience much diversion. His Excellency the Minister After the operetta came a "Ballet of the Nations." New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 "I don't want you to see this scene—it has nothing to do with the operetta—and it is dull and stupid and tedious beyond description." Prince Fortunatus Pauline Viardot She wrote brilliant operettas in collaboration with Tourguenief, but they were never published and were performed only in private. Musical Memories Miss Estabrook has over forty songs to her credit, besides the operetta, "The Tournament." Woman's Work in Music Evidently, they wanted to make fun; it was absurd, it was unlikely, such things only happened in operettas. His Excellency the Minister An operetta of the regulation type was being played. Parisian Points of View He said that a play or operetta called "The Maid of Milan," that he had adapted from the French, was about to be played in London. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 It was a common occurrence to give operettas at these private theatres,—the ordinary parts being taken by amateurs. Beethoven Lillie Mahon Siegfried, of Buffalo, has also produced an operetta, besides the song, "The Beautiful Land of Nod," and several other songs and lullabies. Woman's Work in Music A new operetta would be a diversion, and why should she not go? His Excellency the Minister Three of these young ladies were very well known to first-nighters, as having already figured in the tableaux of operettas and in groups of fairies, but the fourth—Oh, the fourth! Parisian Points of View His first work was an operetta of not much consequence, "Docteur Miracle," written in 1857, and in the same year he took the Grand Prix de Rome. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers The Casino offers concerts and occasional plays and operettas, and a band in the main promenade entertains regularly the listening evening saunterers. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees In more ambitious vein is her operetta, "La Bachelette," which was given with unusual success in the Brussels theatres. Woman's Work in Music I remember I never could go to the operetta or the gipsies when I was sober: wine makes a man more good-natured and reconciles him with vice. The Duel and Other Stories But through this operetta or pantomime with songs he appears to have been introduced to Metastasio, who was, of course, a mighty great man at that epoch—a kind of Scribe. Haydn He gives the public the best operetta, the very best pantomime, excellent artists. Best Russian Short Stories I give them the very best operetta, a dainty masque, first rate music-hall artists. The Darling and Other Stories She wrote the words and music for a child's operetta, "Three Little Lute Players," which was performed three times and aroused much enthusiasm. Woman's Work in Music He even attempted an operetta, "Don Sancho," which later had several performances. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians I also beg to return both your operettas. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 Viola had written her operetta, and it had been taken for a London theatre. Five Nights Music, opera, operetta, and fairy drama gave the earliest impulse to his juvenile imagination. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Gay young men dazzled by operettas and races, they played lansquenet and baccarat, staked large fortunes on horses and cards, and cultivated all the pleasures enchanting to brainless fools. Against the Grain The great success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, "Patience," produced in 1881, was also to some extent due to the humorous allusions to the extravagances of the "Aesthetetes." Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Stage guide for Rose of the Danube; an operetta in two acts for mixed voices. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 July - December The weeks slipped by and brought us to the date when Viola's operetta was to be produced. Five Nights Occasionally he was privileged to attend an operetta or a spectacular play at one of the minor theatres. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The sunbonnet girl; a comic operetta in two acts. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June The "Alice" operetta, which Mr. Dodgson had despaired of, was at last to become a reality. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) And as I leave I hear the chorus of an operetta in the deep voice of Monsieur Caterna. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent There were the new songs, and the operetta with its rehearsals as a cause for it all. Miss Billy's Decision At eight o’clock an operetta is given at the villa, and a comedy in the Casino, both ending discreetly at eleven o’clock. The Ways of Men The crowd was small, for most of the visitors had compressed themselves into one of the rooms, where a shrill operetta was being performed by a strolling troupe. Confidence At the end of the year the "Alice" operetta was again produced at the Globe Theatre, with Miss Isa Bowman as the heroine. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) “What a notion for a vaudeville or an operetta!” he exclaimed. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent On the day after the operetta, they had met, and had had some sort of scene together—doubtless Arkwright had declared his love. Miss Billy's Decision During that month the new operetta at the Albion had been put on and had fallen flat. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The terrace was nearly empty; every one had gone to listen to the operetta, the sound of whose contemporary gayety came through the open, hot-looking windows in little thin quavers and catches. Confidence Several operettas were composed by Nadaud for her receptions and philanthropic entertainments. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" So it is, for example, in the lyric operetta 'Semele', the longest and most pretentious of the 'Anthology' poems. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Then, on the evening of the nineteenth, came the final dress rehearsal on the stage of the pretty little hall that had been engaged for the performance of the operetta. Miss Billy's Decision It had but one performance; on the 22nd, Handel produced a new opera, or, as Burney calls it, an operetta, which had no more than two performances. Handel I was waiting for your commands, Sir; and I propose, in order to amuse the company, to sing with the young lady an operetta which has lately come out. The Imaginary Invalid Though much of the dialogue is as insipid as dialogue in operettas usually is, there is great invention in the plot, and animation in the action. Milton Artistically it is much in need of the file, and Its sustained note of passionate pathos hardly comports, perhaps, with the type of the operetta. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It had been a failure like all the rest; like the operetta, in particular. Miss Billy's Decision The most dramatic of his little speeches was at the Costanzi Theater where a trivial operetta was being given, which was quickly swept into the wings. The World Decision We are about to perform La Geisha, the magnificent English operetta. Cæsar or Nothing In 1811 he made another essay in the musical province; writing, at the request of the manager of the Lyceum Theatre, an operetta named M.P., or the Bluestocking. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Wouldn't he be pleased to have an operetta, a Gilbert and Sullivan affair, dedicated to him! Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Until the night before the operetta Arkwright had been more than doubtful of the way that story would be received, should he ever summon the courage to tell it. Miss Billy's Decision There was in the town, as usual in Germany, a theater, where opera, opéra-comique, operetta, drama, comedy, and vaudeville are presented—every sort of play of every style and fashion. Jean-Christophe, Volume I I suppose there is a way of negotiating these difficulties, but I suspect that most of the fun to be got out of this operetta we have already had in writing it. First Plays You can get on exceedingly well without me: your operetta is on wheels—it will go of itself. Daniel Deronda Accordingly I sat on the barrel, and through a murmur of applause I could hear Michael telling someone that he'd first seen that barrel five years before his operetta came out at the Court. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel And yet—whenever again could she expect such opportunities to further her Cause as had been hers the past few weeks, through the operetta and its rehearsals? Miss Billy's Decision Nothing else was talked of in the evening but the operetta, and the Marquis was in the seventh heaven of delight. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters Yet the French operetta also counted numerous partizans. The Reign of Greed We have no school of opera yet, but the best operettas of Victor Herbert and De Koven deserve mention by the side of those of the French. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents |
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