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English operetta continued into the 1890s, with works by composers such as Edward German, Ivan Caryll and Sidney Jones. These quickly evolved into the lighter song-and-dance pieces known as Edwardian musical comedy. Beginning in 1907, with The Merry Widow, many of the Viennese operettas were adapted very successfully for the English stage. To ...
The Seefestspiele Mörbisch, originally: Seespiele Mörbisch, is an annual operetta festival in Mörbisch am See (Austria). With around 150,000 visitors, the Mörbisch Lake Festival is the world's largest festival of the operetta genre. In addition to operettas, classical musicals are also performed on an irregular basis.
Tanglewood Music Festival: Tanglewood Music Center: United States: Lenox, Massachusetts: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma: Baths of Caracalla: Italy: Rome: Summer Festival Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre [5] Ellen Eccles Theatre and Utah Theatre: United States: Logan, Utah: Performs 5-6 works of Opera and Musical Theatre in two venues. Verbier ...
The loss of private sponsors led to a policy of musical comedy and operetta under Jérôme Savary from 2000. [24] A decree of November 2004 put the theatre on a new basis, stressing the variety of productions it should mount: "de l'opéra baroque à la création contemporaine et le patrimoine de l'Opéra-Comique". [27]
The White Horse Inn (or White Horse Inn) (German title: Im weißen Rößl [note 1]) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria.
Comedy music or musical comedy is a genre of music that is comical, comedic or humorous in nature. Its history can be traced back to the first century in ancient Greece and Rome, moving forward in time to the Medieval Period, Classical and Romantic eras, and the 20th century. Various forms of comedic musical theatre, including "musical play ...
The Red Moon is a musical or operetta in three acts with music by J. Rosamund Johnson and both book and lyrics by Bob Cole. [1] Additional music was contributed by James Reese Europe who composed the song "Sambo" for the show, and co-wrote the song "Ada (My Sweet Potater)" with Cole and lyrics by Charles A. Hunter.
French operetta. Original genre of light (both of music and subject matter) opera that grew out of the French opéra comique in the mid 19th century. Associated with the style of the Second Empire by the works of Offenbach, though his best-known examples are designated subgenerically as opéras bouffes.