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This Kuwaiti comedy operetta follows newlyweds Rashid and Amina as marital tensions arise. Frustrated by Rashid’s modest income and his complaints about her father, Amina directs her anger at Rashid’s mother, leading to a cascade of humorous conflicts.

The story explores the daily lives of a married couple during Ramadan, capturing how they navigate fasting, work, worship, household responsibilities, and parenting. Through their challenges and small victories, the couple learns to balance tradition and modern demands, highlighting the spirit of Ramadan within family life.

In a miserable and obscure future, the democratically elected super-president gives to the entitled the state pussy: every head of the family is entitled, free of charge, at the age of eighteen, to a suitably lobotomized real domestic woman to marry.

This lighthearted Kuwaiti operetta takes audiences on a nostalgic journey back to old Kuwait, capturing the charm and simplicity of life in a bygone era. Through lively musical numbers and comedic sketches, the operetta showcases beloved children’s games, bustling traditional cafes, and the lively alleyways of Kuwait's neighborhoods. As characters relive their joyful memories, "What a Time!" celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Kuwait, offering a playful, heartfelt glimpse into the community spirit and everyday joys of the past.

A musical TV show dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Hungarian composer Imre Kalman. The performance is based on excerpts from the operettas "Silva", "Maritza", "Circus Princess", "Ball".

A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.

On this beautiful spring evening, excerpts from famous operettas performed by Masters of the Soviet era, including the unforgettable, beloved since childhood, Nikolai Kashirsky, the young rising star of the Moscow operetta Tatiana Shmyga, the amazing timbral possibilities of the voice - Evgeny Kibkalo and other Soviet singers.

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.

"It's a little raw and crude right now, but I want this to be 'My Rotten Life' as a dessert, not as a liver pill." Cult film actress Susan Tyrrell (Fat City, Forbidden Zone, Cry-Baby) performing her one woman semi autobiographical musical show at La Cage, Los Angeles, 1992.

A killer stalks chorus girls.

Everything is true: everything has happened and has been filmed as it was happening. A screenwriter at the top of his career, tired of his work and burdened by unescapable life choices, decides with an acquaintance to sail back to Rome from the small island where he spent last year's lockdown. During this journey, unexpected events overlap with a verbal outburst about his tangled life. A flow of words comes out, a naked and unabashed confession about cinema, the directors he has worked with, family, love, grief and his past. As unstoppable and digressive as a jazz solo.

Mawahib Band : Saudization Operetta was held in NESMA Company at 2009.

Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta

A TV movie variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie is a part of Carmelo Bene's multi-medial project on Hamlet, also including the theatrical movie "Un Amleto di meno", a stage drama and the experimental video "Amleto di Carmelo Bene (Da Shakespeare a Laforgue).

Why would Gilded Age audiences flock to theaters in American cites to see a Viennese operetta that celebrated German nationalism and militarism? A team of University of Tampa faculty and students from the disciplines of history, music, and musical theater set out to answer this question. Local filmmaker Steven Nye followed the project, which culminated in a live performance of songs from Carl Millöcker’s The Black Hussar. Filmed at the historic Tampa Theatre, the reenactment uses the libretto, stage manager’s notes, and the conductor’s score from the original American production to bring this forgotten work back to life, and commentary from the UTampa research team explains why the musical comedy spent over a decade at the center of U.S. popular culture.

The angels have given the Captain of the Sea Butches the holy assignment to travel to a lesbian bar on Venus to get hold of the strongest vibrator in the whole universe – the weapon needed in the fight to destroy the phallic tower of the evil gentrifiers.

The operetta Memoirs of a Seafarer is a musical theater work presented in 1979 on the occasion of the Kuwaiti National Day, written by the poet Mohammed Al-Fayez, may God have mercy on him, the operetta talks about the hard lives of sailors and divers in order to earn a living, the work includes 12 artistic paintings.

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He's quickly engaged by another theatre and becomes famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting, which begins their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.

Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.

An operetta in three acts with music by Franz Lehár and libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein. Starring: Anthony Michaels-Moore, Adriana Ferfecka, and Nadja Mchantaf; stage directed by Damiano Michieletto

Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.

Witty, fun, intoxicating film of Johann Strauss II's popular operetta, based on a stage production from Vienna State Opera; this is a showcase for the entire cast, but most especially Eberhard Wächter as the insufferably boorish Gabriel Eisenstein, and Gundula Janowitz as his long-suffering wife. Open the champagne, have yourself some torte, and enjoy this delectable comedy from Vienna.

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After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the major opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, the Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House Convent Garden in London. John Cox directed this lavishly equipped production by Julia Trevelyan Oman initially in London in 1977. On New Year's Eve 1990, this staging offered the luxurious ambiance for the farewell to Joan Sutherland from her London audience. The singer had admired them since her first great success at this prestigious opera house in the fifties. The rushing feast in the second act reached its climax with its stormy cheered performance and the commitment of her friends and colleagues Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne, with whom she often stood together on the stage.

Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social ladder.

The plot of Die Fledermaus is woven around a ball given by Prince Orlofsky.

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.

Austrian composer Franz Léhar's opera Giuditta receives a unique interpretation by the Seefestspiele Mörbisch in this stage production, which stars Natalia Ushakova and Mehrzad Montazeri as the principal leads. The Morbisch Festival Orchestra accompanies the production, while the Chorus and Ballet of the Seefestpiele Mörbisch lend added support.

A film about Johnny Bode. Schlager diva, Operetta hero, filth musical innovator, enfant terrible, compulsive liar and amoral rogue. Johnny Bode (1912-1983) was very successful in Sweden and Europe. Yet he is today almost completely forgotten. Why? His life was so overwhelming, glamorous, fast and bizarre. So un-Swedish. He became fascinated by the nazism. Was arrested by the Gestapo and detained at Grini concentration camp in Norway. For five weeks. After the war he moved to East Berlin and proclaimed himself a dear friend of the GDR. Later he was deported and returned to Sweden. A time of fencing and small crimes followed. Escaped to Brussels at first and later Vienna. He was, as Juan Delgada, hired by the Vienna Opera to create new operettas. And was very successful. Johnny Bode died exhausted alone and abandoned in Malmö during the summer of 1983.

The trials and tribulations of Natalka and Petro. The sweethearts plan to get married, however, Natalka's father does not approve of the marriage because Petro's not affluent enough to keep Natalka in the manner he thought that she should be kept. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune. With no news from Petro for five years, Natalka succumbs to her mother's wishes and finally accepts her next offer of marriage, which happens to come from an old, but relatively wealthy government official.

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Based on the famous operetta, Natalka Poltavka was the first Ukrainian film directed in the USA. Natalka and Petro want to get married, but Natalka's father doesn't approve of the marriage — there are more affluent men in the village. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune.

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris circa October, 1925. Middle-aged Gilberte flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with American Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about their past. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?

Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fortune in their home country of Pontevedro. Kelli O’Hara sings Valencienne, the flirtatious young wife of the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, Baron Zeta, played by Thomas Allen, and Alek Shrader is her suitor, Camille. Andrew Davis conducts the waltz-rich score, and the new English translation is by Jeremy Sams.

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

A Hungarian countess, wanting to dissuade unwanted suitors, announces her engagement to a fictional count Zsupán. Things go awry when a count Zsupán shows up, having heard of his engagement in the papers.

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Her father, meanwhile, in an attempt at social climbing, pushes her towards wealthy officer, Franz von Renner.

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Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this live television special became an annual Christmas tradition with rotating cast members.