Word: operettas
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Twenty years ago, when gentlemen wore starched cuffs and ladies hid in corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...
...Operetta is no longer what it used to be. But last month Los Angeles launched a swank season of operetta revivals, and similar festivals have been scheduled for this summer in Louisville, Cleveland, St. Louis, as well as in Manhattan's Randall's Island and Long Island's Jones Beach. Most important of these festivals, that of the 20-year-old St. Louis Municipal Theater Association, opened last week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener...
...Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
Last week Nazification of Vienna's State Opera House left Composer Offenbach's lone opera on the shelf of verboten masterpieces. Reason: Composer Offenbach was a Jew. But yesterday's operetta-loving Vienna would have been a very different place without Composer Offenbach's influence. It was Composer Offenbach who invented and introduced to Vienna the kind of operetta that helped make Vienna famous...
...Hasty Pudding display the first club operetta. "Dido and Aeneas," written by Owen Wister and presented in 1882, is represented by the original playbill and a photograph of the cast. The club gave its first stage production in 1845, a burlesque called "Bombastes Furioso," held in a member's room in Hollis Hall. Many Hasty Pudding show books are displayed, including the "Famous Fakirs" of 1908, its first modern musical comedy, and "The Sphinx," the only show staged professionally after its Harvard appearance...