Word: operettas
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...Such an operetta was The Dollar Princess (1907) which, sensitive to the march of history, turned its back on gypsies and archdukes and instead examined the American millionaire. Today, few people remember it except music publishers, sentimentalists, and the Russians, who last week began adapting The Dollar Princess for their own devices...
Half a century passed, during which archdukes became practically extinct and even the golden hoards of the dollar princesses diminished. Last week, at the Moscow Operetta Theater, the Russians revived The Dollar Princess. They had decided that the story needed some changes-not many, really, just a point underscored here and an angle sharpened there...
...Trial by Jury" opens at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Winthrop House junior Common Room. Winthrop and Radcliffe will also present Gilbert and Sullivan's comedy operetta on Victorian law Saturday night...
Winthrop House and Radcliffe College will stage "Trial by Jury," Gilbert and Sullivan's comedy operetta on Victorian law, at 8:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the House's Junior Common Room...
...libretto turned out to have far more peroration ("Children of misery, tomorrow we must be free," etc.) than punch. And Composer Still's music, sometimes lusciously scored, sometimes naively melodic, often had more prettiness than power. In all, Troubled Island had more of the 'souffle of operetta than the soup bone of opera. With a little seasoning here & there, some listeners thought, it could even be made into a Broadway hit. Composer Still's first-night audience liked it fine, anyhow. Exultant, happy, and even more determined after taking six curtain calls with the cast, Still said...