Background

Everything I put up on Wikipedia gets wiped so I am putting it all up here in my own way -- mostly stuff that Wikipedia does not have in English. Mainly information about operetta but some other topics as well

Monday, September 9, 2019



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A new Ingeborg Hallstein channel on Youtube with lots of videos

Moscow nights

The late Lawrence Auster 1949 – 2013

Why a great Protestant hymn breaks my heart

Musical discoveries

Bach's toccata and fugue in d minor at Passau

The Tilt Train has been nobbled

A new favourite pianist -- Alice Sara Ott

"Trim Taut & Terrific" -- the Lightburn Zeta

Emotional music

More wonderful singing from Anna Netrebko

A marvellous rendition of Meine Lippen, die kssen so heiss by a young Anna Netrebko

Pergolesi and Sabina Pu‚rtolas

Dr Gordon Lavelle Mangan (1924 - ): A biographical note

Ingeborg Hallstein: Die Fledermaus (excerpt)

Another Ingeborg Hallstein clip: "Ich bin die Christel von der Post". Also the Nightingale song by Grothe

Austro/Hungarian operetta

The marriage of Figaro

The Tsar and the Carpenter

Der Opernball by Heuberger

Giuditta

The Duchess of Chicago

Dollarprinzessin (Dollar Princess)

Fledermaus (The bat) at Moerbisch

Simplicius (The simpleton)

Graf von Luxemburg (Count of Luxemburg)

A wonderful Austrian singing lady: Ute Gfrerer

Der Vogelhaendler (The bird merchant)

Zirkusprinzessin (Circus Princess)

Der Rosenkavalier (The rose gentleman)

The New Testament canon

Bach and Psalm 23

Wiener Blut  (Vienna spirit)

Das Land des Laechelns ('The land of smiles")

Altemeyer's conceptual confusion

Eine Nacht in Venedig (a night in Venice)

Csardasfuerstin (Gypsy princess)

Bettelstudent (Beggar student)

 Zarewitsch (Heir to the throne of Russia)

Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy baron)

Jesus Christ Superstar

Lustige Witwe (merry widow)

Graefin Mariza (Countess Maritza)

Emerich (Imre) Kalman and Graefin Mariza

Fledermaus at Covent Garden  

Paganini a psychopath?

Zigeunerliebe (gypsy love) and GWF Hegel

Weissen Roessl (White Horse inn)

Aida

"The pirates of Penzance" as satire

Salzkammergut  and "Im weissen Roessl"

Swan Lake The 2009 performance by the Australian ballet

Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) at Glyndebourne

Psalm 23

Disney: a Philip Glass opera

Falvetti and  Il diluvio universale (Noah's flood)

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