The neglect of Suppé this year is perhaps not that surprising (though he, not Johann Strauss II, started Viennese operetta), because interest in him has for decades been confined to his overtures. But ...

Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...

During the years of the Second Empire, the operettas of Jacques Offenbach kept Parisian audiences delightedly dizzy with their roundelays of sexual hijinx, with music to match. Word-for-word and ...

Though now a moderately mature, important and occasionally innovative company, the Los Angeles Opera opened its 20th season with something safe and silly Saturday, a new version of a Jacques Offenbach ...

The George Gershwin of France’s Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the ...

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Inconceivable without their international success with “The Red Shoes” three years earlier, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s audacious screen version of the Jacques Offenbach operetta “The ...

When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

Jacques Offenbach was a master of entertaining music and the inventor of the operetta. His 200th birthday is being celebrated in 2019, and nowhere more than in the city of his birth, Cologne, Germany.