Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...
I first came across Jacques Offenbach's opera Fantasio on German radio about 20 years ago. The recording they were playing was much older still and wasn't authentic in any way. But it was enough to ...
Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...
Jacques Offenbach was a master of entertaining music and the inventor of the operetta. His 200th birthday is being celebrated in 2019, and nowhere more than in the city of his birth, Cologne, Germany.
Drive Featured Album, starting Monday 26 October 2015 after 6pm. Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande move onto Offenbach’s effervescent music in this, their third album of French ...
Barrie Kosky’s new production of “Orpheus in the Underworld” is, he says, a “fantasy world.” By Micaela Baranello Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire ...
Jacques Offenbach was a master of entertaining music and the inventor of the operetta. His 200th birthday is being celebrated in 2019, and nowhere more than in the city of his birth, Cologne, Germany.