Florian Ziemen

Florian Ziemen – Gustave Adolphe Kerker: The Belle of New York (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:06:39 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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The most difficult thing about an operetta is finding an effective title, Gustave Adolphe Kerker once claimed. Although this was not meant seriously, it is not so far-fetched – after all, anyone who has to struggle to invent melodies has no business in the light genre. born in Herford in Westphalia in 1854, taken to the USA by his parents at the age of ten and rising to become one of Broadway’s most famous personalities, Kerker was indeed a paragon of ideas that only needed to be combined with a turbulent plot. Take: The Belle of New York (1897), which got off to a very slow start there, conquered London’s West End with almost 700 performances, became a model of “musical comedy” and has remained so to this day. The Theater für Niedersachsen, which became Broadway with “The Belle of New York”, always receives rapturous applause.

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