In the second part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’s historical legacy as the last preeminent composer-conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Emmerich Kálmán’s music is inspired by Hungarian folklore, history, and literature.
The Ohio Light Opera has built an international reputation as purveyor of the acknowledged masterworks and neglected gems of the operetta and musical theater repertoire
When Steven Daigle became artistic director of the Ohio Light Opera in 1999, the company added traditional mid-century American musicals to its repertoire.
On January 22, the Annapolis Opera Company held a concert at Temple B’Nai Israel in Easton, Maryland, where tribute was given to legendary American Jewish Broadway composers such as Irving Berlin, Steven Sondheim and Richard Rogers, among others.
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is widely considered to be the last of the great composers who also influenced generations of younger conductors. One of them, Professor Raymond Holden of the Royal Academy of Music, discusses the composer’s life and legacy in a wide-raging interview.
The Annapolis Opera Company has established its own unique identity: it specializes in featuring up-and-coming arts professionals, which not only include aspiring singers but stage managers and others who have demonstrated a commitment to pursuing a career in the arts.
Known for his melancholic waltzes, Emmerich Kálmán’s (1882-1953) Countess Maritza remains his most popular work in the U.S. and in the English-speaking world.
Operetta composer Emmerich Kálmán’s popularity rests, in part, on his deft fusion of Viennese waltz rhythms and the fiery strains of the csárdás, a Hungarian folk dance. Yvonne Kalman discusses her father’s legacy and her efforts to promote it internationally.
Franz Lehár (1870–1948) stands out as one of the most beloved operetta composers of all time. Yet, in our wide-ranging interview with Dr. Stefan Frey, a renowned scholar on the Hungarian composer, we also discuss the Nazi era.