Which 1924 Sigmund Romberg operetta features the Drinking Song?
"Captain Tarnitz. The Student Prince The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play ""Old Heidelberg"". The piece has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works. The plot is mostly faithful to its source. It opened on December 2, 1924, at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on Broadway. The show was the most successful of Romberg's works, running for 608 performances, the longest-running Broadway show of the 1920s. It was staged by J. C. Huffman. Even"
"""Show Boat"", the most enduring musical of the 1920s, did not play as long – it ran for 572 performances. ""Drinking Song"", with its rousing chorus of ""Drink! Drink! Drink!"" was especially popular with theatergoers in 1924, as the United States was in the midst of Prohibition. The operetta contains the challenging tenor aria ""The Serenade"" (""Overhead the moon is beaming""). Ernst Lubitsch made a silent film also based on Förster's work, titled ""The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg"", starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer. Its orchestral score did not use any of Romberg's score, although it did include Gaudeamus"
"worked with Romberg several times. Romberg and Hammerstein had worked together on the hit operetta ""The New Moon"" in 1928. May Wine May Wine is a musical with a book by Frank Mandell, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II, and music by Sigmund Romberg. The show was adapted from the novel ""The Happy Alienist"" by Eric von Stroheim and Wallace Smith. The story concerns the rich and absent-minded psychology professor, Johann Volk, who falls in love with Marie (Baroness von Schlewitz). The malevolent Baron Kuno Adelhorst, who also loves Marie, tries to get the professor's money by having Marie marry him,"
"three times in 1907. Both ""Hamlet"" and ""Othello"" were produced three times between 1907 and 1914. Other Shakespearean classics included ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Twelfth Night"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""King Lear"", ""Macbeth"" and ""Julius Caesar"". Sarah Bernhardt appeared at the Lyric in 1906. In 1918, Sigmund Romberg's popular operetta ""Maytime"" was produced. In 1925, the Marx Brothers appeared in one of their earliest Broadway shows, ""The Cocoanuts"", which in 1929 was adapted into an early sound film, the brothers' first feature film. Florenz Ziegfeld produced at least three shows there, including ""Rio Rita"" in 1927 and ""The Three"
"Howard Marsh Howard Marsh (1888 - 1969) was a leading Broadway tenor of the 1920s. He created the role of Baron Franz Schober (not Franz Schubert) in Sigmund Romberg's operetta drawn from Schubert's life and music, ""Blossom Time"", in 1921, and that of Prince Karl Franz in the original 1924 production of Sigmund Romberg's operetta ""The Student Prince"". Marsh also played Gaylord Ravenal in the original 1927 Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""Show Boat"". He played Ravenal only in the original production of ""Show Boat"", not in any of the revivals, and never appeared in films"
"Opera Comique (Oslo) The Opera Comique was Norway's first permanent opera company. The company operated at Stortingsgata ('Parliament Street') no. 16 and existed from 1918 to 1921. Its first major production was ""Tannhäuser"" with tenor Erling Krogh in the starring role. Altogether, the company staged 26 operas, including the Norwegian opera ""Bruderovet"" (The Kidnapped Bride) by Gerhard Schjelderup. By 1918, entertainment venues were already operating on and just off of Stortingsgata. These included the Brødrene Hals concert hall at Stortingsgata 22–24 (established in 1880), the Tivoli entertainment center (Stortingsgata 20, 1890), the National Theater (Stortingsgata 15, 1899), the Theater Café"
"Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, and Frank Mandel. The stage musical opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926 and ran for a very successful 465 performances. Based on the success of this film, Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all color musical feature called ""Song of the West"" which was completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930. French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French"
"and Sigmund Romberg's ""Heidelberger Trinklied"" drinking song from ""The Student Prince"" Herbert's and Romberg's Viennese counterpart Franz Lehár and his music, including ""Dein ist mein ganzes Herz"" and the ""Merry Widow Waltz"" represent the ""gemütlicher"" (comfortable and cozy) side of the restaurant's personality. Other musical fare from this branch – ""The Tales of Hoffmann"" by Offenbach and ""Hansel and Gretel"" by Engelbert Humperdinck, along with the Strauss Waltzes such as ""Blue Danube"" – made up a good part of the basic Lüchow's repertoire performed by the piano and string ensemble first known as the Vienna Art Strings, or Quartet, and"
"from Syracuse"" (1938), ""Pal Joey"" (1940), and ""By Jupiter"" (1942), as well as many successful film projects. Hammerstein, a co-writer of the popular Rudolf Friml 1924 operetta ""Rose-Marie"", and Sigmund Romberg operettas ""The Desert Song"" (1926) and ""The New Moon"" (1928), began a successful collaboration with composer Jerome Kern on ""Sunny"" (1925), which was a hit. Their 1927 musical ""Show Boat"" is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre. Other Hammerstein/Kern collaborations include ""Sweet Adeline"" (1929) and ""Very Warm for May"" (1939). Although the last of these was panned by critics, it contains one of"
"orchestra, but was dismissed from the position by Otto Klemperer for using his own bowings. He was soon hired by Klemperer as an assistant, and in 1922 conducted Fromental Halévy's ""La Juive"" as a substitute. When Klemperer left in 1924, Steinberg served as Principal Conductor. He left a year later, in 1925, for Prague, where he was conductor of the German Theater. He next took the position of music director of the Frankfurt Opera. In 1930, in Frankfurt, he conducted the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's ""Von heute auf morgen"". He was relieved of his post in 1933 by the"
"The Blue Paradise The Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts, with music by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards, lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta ""Ein Tag im Paradies"" (""A Day in Paradise"", 1913) by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and . The story is set in a Viennese cafe, where a man realizes that he cannot recapture his long lost love. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1915 and enjoyed a successful run. It introduced the song “Auf Wiedersehn”, Romberg’s first song"
"Die Rheinnixen Die Rheinnixen (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""; English ""The Rhine Nixies"") is a romantic opera in four acts by Jacques Offenbach. The original libretto by Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter was translated into German by Alfred von Wolzogen. The Elves’ Song from ""Die Rheinnixen"" was later used in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", where it became the ""Barcarolle"" (""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour""), in the 'Giulietta' act; Conrad's drinking song was also re-used in the same act. The first performance was given in a truncated form (owing to the illness of the tenor Alois Ander) on 4 February 1864 at the Hoftheater"
"16, 1888 in Bluffton, Indiana. Internet Broadway Database page Howard Marsh Howard Marsh (1888 - 1969) was a leading Broadway tenor of the 1920s. He created the role of Baron Franz Schober (not Franz Schubert) in Sigmund Romberg's operetta drawn from Schubert's life and music, ""Blossom Time"", in 1921, and that of Prince Karl Franz in the original 1924 production of Sigmund Romberg's operetta ""The Student Prince"". Marsh also played Gaylord Ravenal in the original 1927 Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""Show Boat"". He played Ravenal only in the original production of ""Show Boat"", not in"
"The Dream Girl (operetta) The Dream Girl is an operetta in three acts with music by Victor Herbert and book by Rida Johnson Young (who also wrote the lyrics) and Harold R. Atteridge. Based on the 1906 play ""The Road to Yesterday"", by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, its satiric story concerns reincarnation. Additional music was written by Sigmund Romberg. The piece was Victor Herbert's last musical composition, and the work was produced posthumously on Broadway in 1924. ""The Dream Girl"" opened at the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway on August 20, 1924 and ran for 117 performances. It"
"The Desert Song The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas. Many tales romanticizing Arab North Africa were in vogue, including ""Beau Geste"" and ""The Son of the Sheik"". Originally titled ""Lady Fair"", after successful out-of-town tryouts in Wilmington, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts, the original Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre"
"under conductor Herman Finck. The show was briefly revived on Broadway in 1946 (at New York City Center) and 1973. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Light Opera of Manhattan mounted the operetta several times. To celebrate the centennial of Romberg's birth in 1987, the New York City Opera staged a lavish production with Richard White and Linda Michele. Although old-fashioned by present standards, ""The Desert Song"" is still occasionally performed and has been made into a motion picture four times, though the second version was a short subject, rather than a feature-length film. All film versions were made by"
"New Moon"". Also in 1963, Readers Digest included a selection in their album ""A Treasury of Great Operettas"". Artists included Anna Moffo and William Lewis. This stereo recording of is also available on CD. The Desert Song The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas. Many tales romanticizing Arab North Africa were"
"Der Wein """" (The Wine) is a concert aria for soprano and orchestra, composed in 1929 by Alban Berg. The lyrics are from Stefan George's translation of three poems from Charles Baudelaire's """", as is the secret text of Berg's ""Lyric Suite"". ""Die Seele des Weines"" (The Wine's Soul), ""Der Wein der Liebenden"" (The Wine of Lovers), and ""Der Wein des Einsamen"" (The Wine of the Lonely One). The aria was dedicated to Ružena Herlinger, its commissioner and first performed in Königsberg on June 4, 1930 with Hermann Scherchen. The piece includes a parody of a tango (bars 39, 181)"
"for nineteen weeks. In the 1920s Huffman staged or directed many operettas for the Shuberts. These included ""The Rose of Stamboul"" (1922), ""My Maryland"" (1927), ""The Circus Princess"" (1927) and ""Countess Maritza"" (1928). Other original Broadway productions of operettas included ""Blossom Time"" and ""The Student Prince"". The operetta ""Blossom Time"", with music by Franz Schubert arranged by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Dorothy Donnelly, opened at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on 29 September 1921 and ran for 592 performances. Huffman was the director. This was the second longest running musical of the 1920s. At one point"
"operas by German composer Richard Wagner), the character Wotan, who represents the main Germanic god, sips from a can of Rheingold Beer. It is an homage to ""Das Rheingold"", one of the ""Ring"" operas, and a direct reference to the legendary gold in the Rhine River, of which the Ring of the Nibelungs is fashioned. Rheingold is the beer of choice of Billy Nolan and his friends in Stephen King's novel ""Carrie"". The title of the novel ""Ice Cold in Alex"" (1958) refers to Captain Anson's longing for a Rheingold in Alexandria. The November, 1954, issue of ""Mad"" (#17), has"
"main design collaborator until the director's departure in 1921 and designed roughly ninety shows during that time, with notable works including adaptations of William Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" (1907), ""Hamlet"" (1909), and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1913), Karl Vollmöller's ""The Miracle"" (1911), Reinhard Sorge's ""The Beggar"" (1917), and Henrik Ibsen's ""John Gabriel Borkman"" (1917). Under Reinhardt, the Deutsches Theater became a center of German Expressionist Theater, so Stern designed many sets in that style. As Stern's design aesthetics tended towards serenity and realism, however, this pairing was not always successful. Perhaps his most noteworthy expressionist work was Paul Leni's 1924 silent"
"to 1906 the ""Neues Theater"" was under the management of Max Reinhardt; it later became the site of numerous operetta performances. With the premiere of the comedy ""Der fröhliche Weinberg"" by Carl Zuckmayer on December 22, 1925 the theatre returned to dramatic art, followed by the first performances of ""The Threepenny Opera"" (""Die Dreigroschenoper"") on August 31, 1928 and of the ""Italienische Nacht"" by Ödön von Horváth on March 20, 1931. Bertolt Brecht staged Marieluise Fleißer's play ""Pioneers in Ingolstadt"" on March 30, 1929, causing a veritable scandal. The theatre saw Gustaf Gründgens giving his debut as a director with"
"24, a former dance hall, which had also been used for theatre performances earlier, was adapted to fulfil the requirements of an operatic stage. The new theatre was inaugurated with a performance of the one-act operas ""The Marriage"" by Martinů, ""The Gambler"" (""Il marito giocatore"") by Orlandini and Monteverdi's ""Ariadne's Lament"" as adapted by Carl Orff. Till today, numerous original performances and Austrian premières have remained a trademark of the Wiener Kammeroper repertory. One among many artistic highlights of the past was George Tabori's legendary 1986 production of ""Pagliacci"" by Leoncavallo; Wiener Kammeroper was invited to present the production at"
"""Blossom Time"" was running simultaneously (with different casts but essentially the same crew) at the Shubert Theatre and at the 44th Street Theatre. The ""Student Prince in Heidelberg"" had music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly, based on the play ""Old Heidelberg"" by Rudolf Bleichman. The show, directed by Huffman, opened at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre in New York on 2 December 1924, and ran for 608 performances. ""The Student Prince"" opened at His Majesty's Theatre in London on 3 February 1926, again directed by Huffman, and ran for 96 performances. It was the longest-running musical"
"1875 under the title ""Queen Indigo"", then, rechristened ""A Night on the Bosphorus"", it was presented in London in 1876. Finally, after Strauss' death, the operetta was entirely reworked in 1906 by Max Steiner and staged in Vienna under yet another title, ""The Thousand and One Nights"", which is also the title of one of Strauss' waltzes (""Tausend und eine Nacht"", op. 346) of which the melodies were drawn from the stage work. Max Schönherr later reworked the ballet music from this work into a concert piece, and this version has been recorded. Notes Sources Indigo und die vierzig Räuber"
"starred Fay Bainter, George LeMaire and Walter Woolf and was staged by J. C. Huffman. The Dream Girl (operetta) The Dream Girl is an operetta in three acts with music by Victor Herbert and book by Rida Johnson Young (who also wrote the lyrics) and Harold R. Atteridge. Based on the 1906 play ""The Road to Yesterday"", by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, its satiric story concerns reincarnation. Additional music was written by Sigmund Romberg. The piece was Victor Herbert's last musical composition, and the work was produced posthumously on Broadway in 1924. ""The Dream Girl"" opened at"
"Maryland"" (1927), a successful romance; ""Rosalie"" (1928), together with George Gershwin; and ""May Wine"" (1935), with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, about a blackmail plot; and ""Up in Central Park"" (1945), are closer to the American musical in style. Romberg also wrote a number of film scores and adapted his own work for film. Columbia Records asked Romberg to conduct orchestral arrangements of his music (which he had played in concerts) for a series of recordings from 1945 to 1950 that were issued both on 78-rpm and 33-1/3 rpm discs. These performances are now prized by record collectors. Naxos Records"
"Romberg, and Rudolf Friml continued in the vein of Victor Herbert. Clearly, the live theatre survived the invention of cinema. Leaving these comparatively frivolous entertainments behind, and taking the drama a giant step forward, ""Show Boat"", premiered on December 27, 1927, at the Ziegfeld Theatre, representing a complete integration of book and score, with dramatic themes, as told through the music, dialogue, setting and movement, woven together more seamlessly than in previous musicals. It ran for 572 performances. The 1920s also spawned a new age of American playwright with the emergence of Eugene O'Neill, whose plays ""Beyond the Horizon"", ""Anna"
"then became the kapellmeister and assistant conductor to Blech at the Theater des Westens in Berlin (also known as the Berlin Volksoper) in 1923. This was followed by a post at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as assistant to Bruno Walter. He then became a conductor at the Royal Swedish Opera (RSO) in Stockholm in 1926 where he remained for the rest of his career. He notably conducted several world premieres at the RSO, including Lars-Erik Larsson's ""Prinsessan av Cypern"" (1937), Hilding Rosenberg's ""Lycksalighetens ö"" (1945), Natanael Berg's ""Genoveva"" (1947), and Ture Rangström's ""Gilgamesj"" (1952). In 1950 he conducted the world"
"a number of events from the days of the Nibelungen Saga to the recent international financial crisis caused by the U.S. Subprime mortgage crisis and the role of banks therein. The title echoes ""Rheingold"" (""The Rhine Gold"", 1869) which is the first of four operas in Richard Wagner's opera cycle ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"". In Jelinek's sarcastic phonetic pun, the letter ""h"" in the first word of the title is dropped. This turns the name of the river Rhine into an adjective, ""rein"", meaning ""pure"". Among others, the work is inspired by the mid-nineteenth-century revolution in Vienna (as studied in"
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"ten most popular songs. ""Dear Little Café"" is among the top twenty. Bitter Sweet Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The story, set in 19th century and early 20th century England and Austria-Hungary, centres on a young woman's elopement with her music teacher. The songs from the score include ""The Call of Life"", ""If You Could Only Come with Me"", ""I'll See You Again"", ""Dear Little Café"", ""If Love Were All"", ""Ladies of the Town"", ""Tokay"", ""Zigeuner"" and ""Green Carnation"". The show had a long run in the West End"
"ist keine Sünd"", has been recorded by Richard Tauber and Hermann Prey, amongst others. Bruder Straubinger Bruder Straubinger (Brother Straubinger) is an operetta in three acts composed by Edmund Eysler to a German-language libretto by and . It premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 20 February 1903 with Alexander Girardi in the tile role. Eysler's operetta takes its name and the personality of its protagonist from the popular fictional figure ""Bruder Straubinger"", a travelling craftsman from Straubing who first appeared in an early 19th century student drinking song by Carl Theodor Müller, a medical student in"