Coburg summer operetta
The Coburg Summer Operetta was an open-air operetta festival that took place every summer on the Waldbühne Heldritt near Bad Rodach ( Upper Franconia ) and since 2018 on the Seebühne Bad Staffelstein .
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Performances in recent years
- 1997: The White Horse Inn by Ralph Benatzky
- 1998: A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus
- 1999: Black Forest Girl by Leon Jessel
- 2000: The pub in the Spessart by Franz Grothe
- 2001: The cousin of Dingsda of Eduard Künneke
- 2002: Mrs. Luna from Paul Lincke
- 2003: The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár
- 2004: The Beggar Student of Carl Millöcker
- 2005: The Hungarian wedding of Nico Dostal
- 2006: Salon Pitzelberger by Jacques Offenbach and Die Schöne Galathée by Franz von Suppè ; The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 2007: The bird dealer by Carl Zeller : eleven performances on the Heldritt forest stage and a guest performance on the Steinbach-Langenbach natural stage
- 2008: Countess Mariza von Emmerich Kálmán : Ten performances on the Heldritt forest stage and a guest performance on the Steinbach-Langenbach natural stage
- 2009: Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss (son) : Thirteen performances on the Heldritt Waldbühne
- 2010: My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe : Fourteen performances on the Waldbühne Heldritt
- 2011: Viktoria and her hussar by Paul Abraham : thirteen performances on the Heldritt forest stage
- 2012: Gasparone by Karl Millöcker on the Heldritt Waldbühne
- 2013: Kiss me Kate by Cole Porter on the Heldritt Waldbühne
- 2014: The circus princess by Emmerich Kálmán on the Heldritt forest stage
- 2015: The Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss on the Heldritt Waldbühne
- 2016: The Jolly Farmer of Leo Fall on the forest stage Heldritt
- 2017: The Blues Brothers in: Prison by Thomas Elben on the Waldbühne Heldritt
- 2018: The Bat by Johann Strauss : Thirteen performances on the lake stage in Bad Staffelstein
General
The registered, non-profit association Coburger Sommeroperette eV was founded in April 1994 by Wolfgang Krautwig, Klaus Lapins († March 20, 2007), Bernhard Maxara and other people. Reinhard Schmidt was the musical director until 2010, and Ivan Boldog took over in 2011. Production management was held by Klaus Lapins for many years; after his death in 2007, his widow Daniela Pfaff-Lapins took over the management. This year's performance of the bird dealer was directed by Bernhard Maxara. From 2008 to 2010, the director was Prof. Dr. Horst Zander , in 2011 again Bernhard Maxara, 2017 Ulrich Cyran and 2018 Gernot Kranner. From 2008 to 2018 Adelheid Frankenberger was responsible for production management.