Only this year a new publication has been started, dealing exclusively with French operetta.

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And in trying to refocus the operetta into a modern context, perhaps the purpose of the exercise becomes unclear.

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Gene Wisoff says the Mendelssohn Glee Club of that era reminds him of something out of a 19th-century operetta.

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He was also well known for his theatre work, writing the music for several plays and his own operetta.

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He also composed his own operetta, If The Moon Can Be Believed.

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At moments of impetuous ardor, the gallants Claudio and Luzio, both tenors, seem ready to fly off into the sunset of Viennese operetta.

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It covers an enormous range of experience, too, yet the style is consistently playful, even frivolous, and slyly erotic at times, we might be watching a naked operetta.

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The star clinched the accolade for his role in the film Topsy Turvy, directed by Mike Leigh, in which he plays Gilbert of the operetta team Gilbert and Sullivan.

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And McPartland joins in for a duet in "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise, " originally composed as a tango by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein for the 1928 operetta The New Moon.

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The show itself is a gem, a compact operetta with a radiant score, and virtually every aspect of this production is right on target, starting with Laura Osnes, the star, who looks like she stepped out of a storybook and sings like she stepped out of a dream.

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