The 1920s and 1930s were the beginning of the portion of Broadway history that is actually widely remembered. This is almost odd, as they were not particularly good years for the genre. The shows of this era tended to follow one of two formulas, both … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Ten
It’s worth noting that for the first time, in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, a genre of lightweight sub-opera like Singspiel had actually gained enough traction to stick around and carve out an identity for itself. To be precise, it was … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Nine
While these innovations were going on in the rest of Europe, the aforementioned Italian genius Giuseppe Verdi was creating his own Italian equivalent to Wagner’s ‘Music Drama’ in the definitive musicalizations of Shakespeare, Otello (based, … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theater, Part Eight
Wagner’s new format would form the basis of virtually every opera of the Modernist era, including most if not all of Richard Strauss’ operas. The Wagnerian influences were most obvious in his first two Operas, the twistedly beautiful adaptation of … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theater, Part Seven
The second development that gave the Operatic format a new lease on life is the unified Music Drama that was essentially invented by Richard Wagner. Now I know Wagner was not particularly palatable as a human being, although the hyperbolic terms like … [Continue reading]
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