Word: operettas
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...where Tenor McCormack has coined a great part of his success from Irish ballads of the Mother Machree type, Tenor Tauber's medium has been in operetta, chiefly in those written by his Viennese friend, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxemburg, Gypsy Love). At his debut recital last week (attended by Tenor McCormack and many another musical notable) Tenor Tauber surprised everyone by not wearing his monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were...
...Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company, which has been presenting a voluminous Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire (TIME, May 18), The Merry Widow was revived in Manhattan last week. "Danilo." that reckless prince, is oHtime, dependable Donald Brian. Oldsters who recalled his appearance in the same role when the operetta was first brought to the U. S. applauded him to the rafters. Many of the jokes and quips are pitifully old, are made even more shabby when Mr. Aborn's company attempts to freshen them, but the Lehar music-lilting "Vilia"' and the charming "Cavalier" song...
...week that the Johann-Strauss-Theater in Vienna had gone bankrupt. Not because of any association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz Lehar. Now Vienna is poverty-ridden. The Tonfilm offers potent competition with the ordinary run of state theatres, and many composers-like Oskar Straus (The Waltz Dream)- have gone over to the talkies. Bustling Berlin can make...
Revived last week in Manhattan was the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...
Professor Charles Robert Walsh is capable at elocution, tennis, bridge. He knows little about music. Nevertheless when his operetta Lucille was given a recent amateur performance (no better, no worse than average) by St. John's students, the tunes were such hits that the first-night audience stayed applauding for 15 minutes after the final curtain. Last week it was decided to repeat Lucille, twice in Brooklyn (April 24 and 25), once in Germantown, Pa. (May 13) where Professor Walsh used to live; once in Atlantic City...