A FESTIVAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LYRIC THEATER TRADITION
Taking Light Opera Seriously Tuesday, July 31 - Friday, August 3 SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS INCLUDE: STEVEN DAIGLE is Artistic Director of Ohio Light Opera and Dramatic Director of Eastman Opera Theatre. In his tenure at OLO, he has expanded the company’s scope to include early and mid-century American musicals, introduced more than 73 new titles to OLO’s repertoire, stage-directed scores of productions, and created new performance editions for five Kálmán operettas and 2014’s revelatory Dream City and The Magic Knight by Victor Herbert. STEFAN FREY has written definitive biographies of the three giants of the Silver Age of Viennese Operetta: Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, and Leo Fall, as well as an illustrated history of Munich’s Gärtnerplatz Theater. He teaches at universities in Munich and Vienna, is a constant contributor to the press and to radio programs on operetta, has created liner notes for many CD releases, and been involved in operetta productions throughout Germany.
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MICHAEL MILLER is the chair of the Ohio Light Opera Board of Directors and the president of Operetta Foundation, which has produced staged versions of long-forgotten shows and released more than 30 CDs and DVDs of rare operetta and early musical comedy. RICHARD NORTON is the co-author of American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle and the author of the three-volume A Chronology of American Musical Theatre, which reproduces complete playbill information for every musical that has played Broadway since 1866. He has contributed to numerous musical theater publications, including a German monograph devoted to White Horse Inn, and is currently authoring a book on Frederick Loewe. LAURENCE SENELICK is Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture; Soviet Theatre: A Documentary History; and The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre. He has directed productions for the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, Castle Hill Concerts, and other organizations. DOMINIC SYMONDS is Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of We'll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers and Hart (2015) and Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song (2017). He is also the co-editor of the scholarly journal, Studies in Musical Theatre. Dominic writes and directs professionally: highlights include directing the Moldovan state premiere of The Magic Flute (2006) and writing and directing his own Sweet FA (2009)
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JULY 31—VICTOR HERBERT’S SEVEN LITTLE WIDOWS In the musical theater world, it was huge news: the unearthing in 1935, from a New York warehouse, of the musical scores for three unproduced Victor Herbert musicals. One of these, Seven Little Widows, with libretto by Rida Johnson Young—who had already teamed with Herbert for Naughty Marietta and would later join with Sigmund Romberg for Maytime—had been scheduled for production in the 1912-13 Broadway season, but was eventually abandoned. The storyline centers around a young man who, in order to inherit $3,000,000 from his Mormon uncle, must marry his benefactor’s multiple wives. Don’t miss this world premiere—with orchestral accompaniment!