The Cambridge Companion to Operetta

Contents

• 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.