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, composed ...

Mezzo-soprano; Munich Radio Orchestra, Frederic Chaslin, conductor (RCA Victor) There is a sizable amount of French operatic and operetta material still awaiting exploration on disc, and here we get ...

The turn of the year is a time not only for champagne but for the fizz of operetta, with productions of Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" and Lehar's "The Merry Widow" a seasonal tradition. A new disc ...

Placido Domingo will spend one day in Philadelphia to sing here for the first time in 25 years. He’s performing a concert of arias, operetta, zarzuelas and American and Latin American popular ...

He explained that the evening’s program of operetta arias and film songs from the 1920s and ‘30s spanned a range of instrumentation from full orchestra to chamber jazz ensemble and that amplification ...

Opera purists, beware! Mixed Precipitation is not for those who get incredulous whenever something from the classical canon is given an offbeat modern update. The Twin Cities company’s annual “picnic ...

Operetta can save the world. Okay, Austrian tenor Michael Heim doesn’t assert this proposition in so many words — but he comes close. “With operetta, you can open hearts, and then you can see that all ...