Tag Archives: operetta
Recording of the Week: You Mean the World to Me
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 25th March 2019Jonas Kaufmann’s recital disc was released in 2014. It’s devoted to music that dominated pre-Nazi Berlin and then for a while after Vienna. The advent of the Nazi’s killed the music and some of its creators as well. These are the songs and arias that Joseph Schmidt and Richard Tauber are strongly associated with. The…
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Die Große Sünderin: Das Lied vom Leben des Schrenk
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 31st July 2015Eduard Künneke (1885-1953) was a German composer of operas and operettas. His 1935 operetta Die große Sünderin (The Great Sinner) has a tenor aria that still finds its way into ther recitals and recordings of German tenors. Here are two recording of “Das Lied vom Leben des Schrenk”, the first by the late and greatly lamented Fritz…
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The Merry Widow in HD
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th January 2015Franz Lehár’s bon-bon was telecast in HD today by The Metropolitan Opera. Five time Tony Award winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman along with a mostly outstanding cast gave Lehár’s 1905 operetta a spirited reading. The sets and costumes which were period appropriate were bright and appealing. Even the curtain calls were brilliantly staged. The result…
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Met's La Rondine Marred by Technical Glitch
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th January 2009La Rondine (broadcast today in HD) has been absent from the Met for more than 70 years. The house brought it back solely as a vehicle for Angela Gheorghiu and her spouse Roberto Alagna. Why the Met let’s anything by Puccini languish while it finds the resources for Satyagraha or Dr Atomic can only be…
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