Burlesque & Colorful - Excerpts from "Schwanda" and More... Jarom?r Weinberger's "one-hit wonder" was definitely his opera Schwanda, the Bagpiper. Two thousand performances of this opera were...
No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian...
Following His First Reading of the Libretto, Franz Lehar Himself Wrote of the Igniting Sparks Inspiring Him to Write His Paganini Operetta. Since This Inspirational Thriller's Premiere Took Place...