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Salvi makes American debut with two operatic rarities
Concert Operetta Theater moved into new artistic territory with its November production of two unfamiliar operettas. Daniel Pantano’s Philadelphia company teamed up with a European organization led by Dario Salvi devoted to the preservation of neglected music. Their similar interests came together with a double bill of operettas not heard in America in a century.
Excitement builds for revival of long-lost operetta, A Trip to Africa
In 1883, three of the masterminds of Viennese operetta, composer Franz von Suppé and librettists Richard Genée and Moritz West, collaborated on a new masterpiece; A Trip to Africa – or Die Afrikareise in the original German.