The Cambridge Companion to Operetta
- Editor: Belina, Anastasia
- Editor: Scott, Derek
[This book] deserves to take its place ... on the short (but growing) bookshelf of every operetta lover —
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$40.50Contents
- Introduction Anastasia Belina and Derek B. Scott;
- Part I . Early Centres of Operetta:
- 1. French operetta: Offenbach and company John Kendrick;
- 2. Viennese Golden-Age operetta: drinking, dancing and social criticism in a multi-ethnic empire Lisa Feurzeig;
- 3. London and Gilbert and Sullivan Bruno Bower;
- 4. Hungarians and Hungarianisms in operetta and folk plays in the late Habsburg and post-Habsburg era Lynn Hooker;
- 5. Operetta in the Czech National Revival - the Provisional Theatre years Jan Smaczy;
- Part II . The Global Expansion of Operetta:
- 6. Going global: the international spread of Viennese Silver-Age operetta Stefan Frey;
- 7. Spain and Zarzuela Christopher Webber;
- 8. Camping along the American operetta divide (on the road to the musical play) Raymond Knapp;
- 9. Operetta in Russia and the USSR Anastasia Belina;
- 10. Operetta in the Nordic countries (1850-1970) Pentti Paavolainen;
- 11. Operetta in Greece Avra Xepapadakou;
- Part III . Operetta since 1900:
- 12. The operetta factory: production systems of Silver-Age Vienna Micaela Baranello;
- 13. Berlin operetta Tobias Becker;
- 14. Operetta in Italy Valeria De Lucca;
- 15. Operetta in Warsaw Anastasia Belina;
- 16. British operetta after Gilbert and Sullivan Derek B. Scott;
- 17. Operetta during the Nazi regime Matthias Kauffmann;
- 18. Operetta films Derek B. Scott;
- 19. 'Jazz was the dynamite that exploded the harmlessness of the Viennese operetta!' (Interviewer: Ulrich Lenz.) Interview with Barrie Kosky.