Operetta: A Theatrical History

By Richard Traubner

Book Overview

This entertaining and thorough examination of operetta remains the only complete, richly-illustrated history available of a delightful form of musical theater which has enraptured audiences around the world for over a century. Coming at a time of renewed enthusiasm for operetta, Richard Traubner's timely volume shakes the dust off many exciting pieces, while documenting the creation of the masterworks of the form, including Orph e aux Enfers, Die Fledermaus, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Merry Widow, The Desert Song, and White Horse Inn. It covers the careers of the major operetta composers and librettists--including Offenbach, Herv , Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, Leh r, Coward, and Lerner and Loewe--the original productions of their works, the principal foreign versions, the famous revivals, and related aspects of public and critical reaction, as well as providing a chronicle of operetta's greatest theaters and most popular stars.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195207785
• ISBN13: 9780195207781
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"