My book, The Operetta Empire, is now available from the University of California Press! A history of Viennese operetta in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it explores how operetta theaters and works by composers like Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán articulated issues of nationality, gender, and class. If you like my writing on this blog, you will love the last chapter, which considers current operetta production practice in theaters like the Volksoper and Komische Oper Berlin. The Operetta Empire was named a notable book of 2021 by Alex Ross at The Rest is Noise and reviewed in November 2021 in The New York Review of Books. You can order it directly from UC Press here and Amazon here.
