Word: romberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise comes from Richard Rodgers, who invades the domain which used to be the exclusive property of Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg. Instead of his usual racy tomfoolery and querulous laments, Rodgers has turned out a score that would be superb if it didn't sound as if it were from Kern...
Sunny River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs...
...late, great Virginia Woolf's last book is not one of her major works; it is almost a "light" novel. But it compares with the run of light novels as a Mozart opera compares with one by Sig Romberg. It is also the most nearly public of her exquisitely private books. Its subject is no individual, but the whole of England...
...Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born pianist and greatest living composer of light opera, is of an age which the swift and relentless stride of time has left alive only in memories. His name was greatest when whispered by ladies in ruffled hoop-skirts to frock-coated gentlemen seated next to them in their box-seats. Like those of his fellow-spirit, Victor Herbert, his opera stories are now watery wine to a world once intoxicated by the theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens...
...light opera goes, of course, largely to the music. Though the story of "The Student Prince" is not quite as typed as many others (at least the prince fails to get the sweet little inn-girl, letting throne rule heart) one may be quite sure that it is Sigmund Romberg's score which fills the Opera House. You go because you know you will come out humming the almost classical melodies of the "Drinking Song" or "Serenade," probably not able to say offhand what finally happened to the prince's love affair. As for this production, it is enough...