Juneau Lyric Opera is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend with Johann Strauss’ operetta “Die Fledermaus,” the same production that launched JLO in 1975. Kim Hutchison, Gloria ...

Operettas became more melancholic and activist ... of his career,” he made an outrageously fanciful biopic about Johann Strauss II, “Strauss’ Great Waltz,” in 1934. Who else but Hitch ...

Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) is known as the 'Waltz King ... Strauss was tempted (particularly by his first wife, the noted mezzo-soprano Jetty Treffz) to try his hand at operetta in the style of ...

A monument of the musician Johann Strauss Jr. in Vienna's Stadtpark ... While initially struggling to compose operettas, he wrote several of them, including a few hits like "Die Fledermaus".

Operetta in three acts Sung in German Five years after Wagners Parsifal Johann Strauss II presented Simplicius in the Theater an der Wien Neither an opera nor an operetta it was a work that did ...

Operetta is a type of opera where the audience ... presenting works by Austrio-Hungarian Franz Lehár, Austrian Johann Strauss II, German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach and French Louis ...

DIE FLEDERMAUS (“The Revenge of the Bat”) by Johann Strauss premiered at Theatre ... Based on a French farce, the operetta is an unequalled coupling of Viennese musical charm and Parisian ...

That’s how the dynasty began. (It died out in 1939 with the death of Johann Strauss III, son of Eduard, one of Johann II’s brothers.) Johann I had six children by his wife Anna – Johann, Josef, Nelli, ...