“Too Old To Dream” was the first- act highlight of Monday’s concert, “A Night at the Operetta II,” which opened the three-night Summer Broadway Festival, produced by Scott Siegel, majordomo of the ...

NEW YORK — As the lights dim, the spell is cast. “The Sorceress” is back, and speaking her mother tongue in lower Manhattan. Written by Avrom Goldfaden in 1878, the operetta was the first ...

THE SERENADE is Victor Herbert's wildly popular comic operetta, which returns in its original form to New York City for the first time in over 100 years. In 1897, when Herbert composed THE ...

Bustin’ out all over with operetta romances and sub-romances ... The songs themselves—Whistle It, In Old New York, Because You’re You, Isle of Our Dreams, Every Day Is Ladies’ Day With ...

President Bush’s brief visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories tomorrow and Thursday will be staged as an operetta in two acts. In Act One ... Halkin is a contributing editor of The New York ...

In 1911, the Yiddish operetta Shir Hashirim: The Song of Love premiered in New York City, and became immensely popular, performed on stages around the world for decades. The musical comedy ...

Written by Avrom Goldfaden in 1878, the operetta was the first Yiddish production in America in 1882. This month, New York audiences are experiencing it just as it was 140 years ago — or at ...

Love is Like Mud will have its World Premiere at The New York International Fringe Festival in August. The rock operetta is written by Ben Folstein who also serves as the director and band leader.

Converting Candide into a “comic operetta” is perforce a major operation. For the whizzing variety of incident must be duplicated by musical, visual, verbal, choreographic variety of treatment.

The operetta was performed on New Year’s Eve ... stopping briefly in New York City to try to market his trove of musical works. But they were stolen instead. A couple of years later, Smiley ...