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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...