Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg, 1949

Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 in Nagykanizsa , Austria-Hungary - November 9, 1951 in New York City) was an American composer of Hungarian origin.

biography

Origin and education

Romberg (actually Rosenberg) was the time of the Austro-Hungarian -Monarchie Austria-Hungary in the western Hungarian town of Nagykanizsa (dt. United Churches), the son of a German- Jewish family was born. His father was an amateur musician and his mother wrote poetry. From the age of six he learned to play the violin and from the age of eight he learned to play the piano. However, his parents had planned for him to be an engineer and therefore enrolled him in the Osijek secondary school. He spent five years there and played in the school orchestra. After attending other schools, he went to Vienna as a teenager to study at the Polytechnic Institute . At the same time he took composition lessons from Richard Heuberger , the celebrated composer of the operetta Opernball . Romberg experienced the last great period of the Viennese operetta with Franz Lehár , Robert Stolz and Emmerich Kálmán in the capital of the late Habsburg Empire .

Restaurant pianist in the USA

In 1909 he emigrated to the USA. He was temporarily employed in a pencil factory in New York . Romberg then worked for $ 15 a week as a pianist in a café on Second Avenue . Further engagements as a restaurant pianist followed. In 1912 he was hired by one of New York's most elegant restaurants, Bustanoby's. The young Hungarian directed the house chapel in the baroque restaurant owned by the French brothers André and Jacques Bustanoby on West 39th Street. Public dancing was frowned upon in the prudish United States before World War I , so it was unusual for Romberg to play dance numbers every evening. Within a very short time, the French "lobster palace" (Eng. Lobster palace) became a popular rendezvous place and Romberg's fee rose to 150 dollars per week. In addition, he composed dance music, such as B. the Onesteps Leg of Mutton and Some Smoke , which were published on Tin Pan Alley .

Composer with the Shubert Brothers

In 1914 Louis Hirsch (1887–1924), who had been the resident composer of the powerful theater entrepreneur Shubert Brothers since 1912 , left this theater company to co-found the collecting society ASCAP . Lee Shubert (1871–1953) and Jacob J. Shubert (1879–1963) then hired Sigmund Romberg as a replacement. In 1914 he led the Winter Garden Theater his first Broadway - Review on: The Whirl of the World (dt "The vortex of time."). The success secured his future as a Broadway composer. By 1917 Romberg had already delivered over 300 songs for 17 musicals and revues. Among the stage shows were some Singspiele with Al Jolson in the Winter Garden, some editions of The Passing Show (an annual review) and the 1915 operetta The Blue Paradise , for which he wrote his first big hit, Auf Wiedersehen (text: Herbert Reynolds). He continued to write musical comedies and revues for the Shubert Brothers, but his greatest successes were with operettas in the European tradition.

Romberg reworked Walter Kollo's operetta, as it did in May, completely in American taste. The title was now May Time , but the Berlin scene was moved to New York for patriotic reasons because of the German enemy. The lyrics had Rida Johnson Young (1869-1926) and Cyrus Wood (1889-1942) written. Especially the song Will You Remember? became a hit. The premiere took place on August 16, 1917 and 492 performances followed. Then Romberg was involved in some music shows, in which the siblings Adele and Fred Astaire also appeared. At the end of the First World War he served in the troop maintenance of the US Army.

Successes of the twenties

His first five musicals after the end of the war failed the audience, but in September 1921 he made Franz Schubert's tragic life as Blossom Time an operetta theme and was successful at the Ambassador Theater. The model was Heinrich Berté's Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus , which had been successful in 1916 at the Raimund Theater in Vienna with popularly arranged Schubert melodies. On December 22, 1922, the Australian composer George Howard Clutsam (1866-1951) and the English librettist Adrian Ross (1859-1933) brought out their own adaptation under the title Lilac Time at the Lyric Theater in London.

The Student Prince was first performed on December 2, 1924 at Jolson's 59th Street Theater in New York . Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's (1862–1934) successful drama Alt-Heidelberg from 1901 had been transformed by Broadway librettist Dorothy Agnes Donnelly (1880–1928) into a lively operetta text that matched Romberg's sometimes snappy, sometimes romantic melodies. This “tragic operetta”, a form that Romberg had adopted from Lehár, set against the nostalgic backdrop of Heidelberg , became an outstanding box-office hit in the USA. Other popular successes were the operettas The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928), the musicals My Maryland (1927) and Rosalie (1928). For the operetta The New Moon , which was initially unsuccessful, he wrote the two songs Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise and Lover, Come Back to Me with Oscar Hammerstein II for its New York production , both of which became hits and later also to jazz standards .

From Hollywood back to Broadway

The Desert Song was made into a film by the director Roy Del Ruth (1893–1961) in 1929 , as well as in 1932, 1943 , 1953 and 1955. Since then Romberg has often written film music for Hollywood productions. His Broadway musicals of the 1930s were almost always failures, while his movie songs occasionally became hits, such as When I Grow Too Old to Dream from The Night Is Young (1935) by Dudley Murphy (1897–1968) or Who Are We to Say from the western In the Golden West (1938) by Robert Zigler Leonard .

In 1941, William Morris (1873–1932), a large artist agency, asked Romberg to put together an orchestra that went on tour shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . The first three touring tours were financial bankruptcies as the United States entered the war, but the fourth, which began at Carnegie Hall in 1943 , was a great success. The concerts were then posted with the headline An Evening with Sigmund Romberg . In 1945 the last Romberg musical that attracted crowds ran on Broadway, Up In Central Park , with a text book by the siblings Herbert Fields (1897-1958) and Dorothy Fields (1905-1974).

Sigmund Romberg died shortly after completing his musical comedy The Girl In Pink Tights . He was buried in the non-denominational Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, where numerous celebrities found their final resting place. Two and a half years later, his last musical premiered on March 5, 1954 at the Mark Hellinger Theater on West 51st Street. Stanley Donen filmed Romberg's life in 1954 with Deep in My Heart , more of a revue than a biography. The composer was portrayed by José Ferrer .

effect

The musical significance of Sigmund Romberg lies in the fact that he brought European, especially Viennese, operettas to Broadway at the beginning of the 20th century, successfully "Americanized" them and gave decisive compositional and dramaturgical impulses to the emerging musical as an independent American art form. His mélange of Viennese waltzes and Tin Pan Alley hits, American fairground and march music as well as Wagner's swell sounds and Richard Strauss ' program music moved far enough away from kitsch to be recognized today as an unusual but easily audible mixture can. Romberg let the high spirits of the operetta of the old world flow with playful ease into the modern forms of music of the new, where jazz was just emerging.

Works

Operettas, musicals, revues on Broadway

1. Title: The Whirl of the World
   Form: Revue
   Music: Sigmund Romberg
   Libretto: Harold Atteridge (1886–1938)
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
   performance: January 10, 1914
   Location: Winter Garden Theater
   Performances: 161
2. Title: The Passing Show of 1914
   Form: Revue
   Music: Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carrol (1892–1962)
   Libretto: Harold Atteridge
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
   Choreography: Jack Mason
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
   World premiere: June 1, 1914
   Location: Winter Garden Theater
   Performances: 133
3. Title: Dancing Around
   Form: Revue
   Music: Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carrol
   Libretto: Harold Atteridge
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
   Choreography: Jack Mason
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
   World premiere: October 10, 1914
   Location: Winter Garden Theater
   Performances: 145
   
4. Title: Maid in America
   Form: Revue
   Music: Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carrol
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
   performance: February 18, 1915
   Location: Winter Garden Theater
   Performances: 108
   
5. Title: Hands Up
   Form: Musical
   Music: Sigmund Romberg and Edward Ray Goetz (1886–1954)
   Libretto: Edgar Smith
   Lyrics: Edward Ray Goetz
   Choreography: Jack Mason
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
   World premiere: July 22, 1915
   Location: 44th Street Theater
   Performances: 52
   
6. Title: The Blue Paradise
   Form: Musical
   Music: Edmund Eysler (1874–1949), further songs by Leo Edwards (1884–1944) and Sigmund Romberg
   Libretto: Edgar Smith
   Original: Musikposse Ein Tag im Paradies (1913) by Edmund Eysler, texts by Béla Jenbach (1871–1943) and Leo Stein (1861–1921)
   Lyrics: Herbert Reynolds
   Choreography: Ed Hutchinson
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
   World premiere: August 5, 1915
   Location: Casino Theater (thereafter: 44th Street Theater)
   Performances : 356
7. Title: A World of Pleasure
   Form: Musical
   Music: Sigmund Romberg
   Libretto: Harold Atteridge
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
   Choreography: Jack Mason and Theodore Kosloff (1882–1956)
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
   performance: October 14, 1915
   Location: Winter Garden Theater
   Performances: 116
   
8. Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
   Form: Comedy in 4 acts with musical interludes
   Music: Sigmund Romberg
   Text: Harrison Garfield Rhodes (1871–1929)
   Original: Harry Leon Wilsons (1867–1939) novel of the same name from 1915
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
   Director: Joseph Harry Benrimo (1874–1942)
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
   performance: December 25, 1915
   Location: Fulton Theater
   Performances: December 33 , 1915
9. Title: Robinson Crusoe, Jr.
   Form: Posse with music in 2 acts and 10 scenes
   Music: Sigmund Romberg and James F. Hanley (1892–1942)
   Libretto: Harold Atteridge and Edgar Smith
   Lyrics: Harold Atteridge and Edgar Smith
   Director: JC Huffman
   Choreography: Allan K. Foster
   Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
   World premiere: February 17, 1916
   Location: Winter Garden Theater
   Performances: 139
10. Title: The Passing Show of 1916
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Otto Motzan (1880–1937)
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Director: Jacob J. Shubert and JC Huffman
    Producer: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: 22 June 1916
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 140
11. Title: The Girl from Brazil
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Robert Winterberg (1884–1930) and Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Edgar Smith
    Original: Die Dame in Rot (1911) by Robert Winterberg, original libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
    Choreography: Allan K. Foster
    Directed by Jacob J. Shubert and JC Huffman
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World Premiere: August 30, 1916
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 61
12. Title: The Show of Wonders (Second Edition)
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg, Otto Motzan and Herman Timberg (1892–1952)
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Director: JC Huffman Music Director
    : Allan K. Foster
    Producer: Jacob J Shubert First
    performance: October 26, 1916
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 209
13. Title: Follow Me
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Felix Dörmann (1870–1928) and Leo Ascher (1880–1942)
    Lyrics: Robert B. Smith (1875–1951)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: 29 November 1916
    Location: Casino Theater
    Performances: 78
    
14. Title: Her Soldier Boy
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Emmerich Kálmán, further songs by Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Rida Johnson Young (1869–1926)
    Model: Operetta Der gute Kamerad (1914) by Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), original libretto : Károly Bakonyi (1873–1926) and Victor Léon (1858–1940)
    Lyrics: Robert B. Smith (1875–1951)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: December 6, 1916
    Location: Astor Theater (later Lyric Theater and Shubert Theater )
    Performances: 198
    
15. Title: The Passing Show of 1917
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Otto Motzan
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Choreography: Jack Manning (1897–1940)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: April 26, 1917
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 196
    
16. Title: My Lady's Glove
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Oscar Straus (1870–1954), further songs by Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Edgar Smith and Edward A. Paulton Based on
    : The beautiful unknown (1915) by Oscar Straus, original libretto by Leopold Jacobson (1878 –1943) and Leo Stein
    Lyrics: Edgar Smith and Edward A. Paulton (1866–1939)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: June 18, 1917
    Location: Lyric Theater
    Performances: 16
17. Title: Maytime
    Form: Operetta in four acts
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Rida Johnson Young and Cyrus Wood (1889–1942)
    Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young and Cyrus Wood
    Direction: Edward P. Temple (1861–1921), Allan K. Foster and Jacob J. Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performed: August 16, 1917
    Location: Shubert Theater (later 44th Street Theater , Broadhurst Theater, and Lyric Theater )
    Performances: 492
18. Title: Doing Our Bit
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Herman Timberg
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Director: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: October 18, 1917
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    performances: 130
19. Title: Over the Top
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Philip Bartholomae (1879–1947), more songs by Herman Timberg
    Lyrics: Sigmund Romberg and Philip Bartholomae
    Director: JC Huffman
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: November 28th 1917
    Location: Lew Fields' 44th Street Roof Garden
    Performances: 78
20. Title: Sinbad
    Form: Musical in two acts
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Al Jolson (1886–1950)
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Arrangements: Jack Mason
    Choreography: Alexis Kosloff
    Direction: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: February 14, 1918
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 164
21. Title: The Passing Show of 1918
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz (1878–1956)
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Choreography: Jack Mason
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: July 25, 1918
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 124
22. Title: The Melting of Molly
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Edgar Smith
    Lyrics: Cyrus Wood
    Original: Roman The Melting of Molly (1912) by Maria Thompson Daviess (1872–1924)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: December 30, 1918
    Location: Broadhurst Theater
    Performances: 88
23. Title: Monte Cristo, Jr.
    Form: Musical farce
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: February 12, 1919
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 254
24. Title: The Magic Melody
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873–1943)
    Lyrics: Frederic Arnold Kummer
    Producers: Max R. Wilner and Sigmund Romberg
    World premiere: November 11, 1919
    Location: Shubert Theater
    Performances: 143
25. Title: Poor Little Ritz Girl
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Richard C. Rodgers (1902–1979)
    Libretto: Lew M. Fields (1867–1941) and George Campbell
    Lyrics: Lorenz M. Hart (1895–1943) and Alex Gerber
    Music Director: Pierce de Reeder
    Producer: Lew M. Fields
    World Premiere: July 28, 1920
    Location: Central Theater
    Performances: 93
26. Title: Pagan's
    Form: Tragedy in Three Acts
    Author: Charles Anthony
    Producer: Max R. Wilner and Sigmund Romberg
    World Premiere: January 4, 1921
    Location: Princess Theater
    Performances: 15
27. Title: Love Birds
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Edgar Allan Woolf (1889–1948) and Ballard MacDonald (1882–1935)
    Lyrics: Edgar Allan Woolf and Ballard MacDonald
    Producers: Max R. Wilner and Sigmund Romberg
    Director: Edgar MacGregor (1878–1957) and Julian Alfred
    World premiere: March 15, 1921
    Location: Apollo Theater
    Performances: 103
28. Title: Blossom Time
    Form: Musical in three acts
    Music: Sigmund Romberg based on motifs by Franz Schubert and Heinrich Berté (1857–1924)
    Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly (1880–1928)
    Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly
    Original: Heinrich Bertés Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916) , Original libretto by Alfred Maria Willner (1859–1929) and Heinz Reichert (1877–1940)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: September 29, 1921
    Location: Ambassador Theater
    Performances: 576
    Revivals: from May 19, 1924 in Jolson's 59th Street Theater (592 performances); from March 8, 1926 at Jolson's 59th Street Theater (16 performances); from March 4, 1931 in the Ambassador Theater (29 performances); from December 26, 1938 at the 46th Street Theater (19 performances); from September 4, 1943 in the Ambassador Theater (47 performances)
29. Title: Bombo
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Directors: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: October 6, 1921
    Location: Jolson's 59th Street Theater
    Performances: 218
30. Title: The Blushing Bride
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Cyrus Wood
    Lyrics: Cyrus Wood
    Original: eponymous play by Edward Clark (1878–1954)
    Director: Frank Smithson
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: June 10, 1922
    Location: Astor Theater (then 44th Street Theater )
    Performances: 144
31. Title: The Rose of Stamboul
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Leo Fall (1873–1925) and Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Original: Die Rose von Stambul by Leo Fall, original libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
    Director: JC Huffman
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World Premiere: March 7, 1922
    Location: Century Theater
    Performances: 111
32. Title: Springtime of Youth
    Form: Musical
    Music: Walter Kollo (1878–1940) and Sigmund Romberg
    Lyrics: Matthew C. Woodward and Cyrus Wood
    Original: Stars that shine again (1918) by Walter Kollo, original libretto by Rudolf Bernauer (1880– 1953) and Rudolph Schanzer
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: October 26, 1922
    Location: Broadhurst Theater
    Performances: 68
33. Title: The Passing Show of 1923
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Director: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: June 14, 1923
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 118
34. Title: Innocent Eyes
    Form: Musical, Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge and Tot Seymour (1889–1966)
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: May 20, 1924
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    performances: 126
35. Title: Marjorie
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg, Herbert P. Stothart (1885–1949), Philip Culkin and Stephen Jones
    Libretto: Fred Thompson (1884–1949), Clifford Gray (1887–1941) and Harold Atteridge
    Producer: Embassy Productions , Inc. First
    performed: August 11, 1924
    Location: Shubert Theater (later 44th Street Theater )
    Performances: 144
36. Title: The Passing Show of 1924
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
    Libretto: Harold Atteridge
    Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: September 3, 1924
    Location: Winter Garden Theater
    Performances: 93
37. Title: Artists and Models (1924)
    Form: Revue
    Music: Sigmund Romberg and John Frederick Coots (1897–1985)
    Libretto: Harry Wagstaff Gribble (1896–1981)
    Lyrics: Clifford Gray (1887–1941) and Sam Coslow (1902–1982 )
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: October 15, 1924
    Location: Astor Theater
    Performances: 261
38. Title: The Student Prince
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly
    Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly
    Original: Schauspiel Alt Heidelberg (1901) by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: December 2, 1924
    Location: Jolson's 59th Street Theater
    Performances: 608
    revivals: from January 29, 1931 at the Majestic Theater (42 performances); from June 8, 1943 in the Broadway Theater (153 performances)
39. Title: Louis the 14th
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)
    Lyrics: Arthur Wimperis
    Original: Ludwig XIV. (1922), Schwank in 3 acts by Paul Frank and Julius Wilhelm
    Director: Edward Royce (1870 –1964) Music
    director: Gustave Salzer
    Producer: Florenz Ziegfeld junior (1867–1932) First
    performance: March 3, 1925
    Location: Cosmopolitan Theater
    Performances: 79
40. Title: Princess Flavia
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Harry B. Smith (1860–1936)
    Lyrics: Harry B. Smith
    Original: Roman The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope (1863–1933), eponymous play ( 1908) by Edward E. Rose (1876–1939)
    Director: JJ Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
    performance: November 2, 1925
    Location: Century Theater
    Performances: 152
41. Title: The Desert Song
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Otto Harbach (1873–1963), Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel (1884–1958)
    Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly Music Director:
    Hilding Anderson
    Book Director: Arthur Hurley
    Producers: Laurence Schwab ( 1893–1951) and Frank Mandel First
    performance: November 30, 1926
    Location: Casino Theater
    Performances: 471
    Revival: from September 5, 1973 at the Uris Theater (15 performances)
42. Title: Cherry Blossoms
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Harry B. Smith
    Lyrics: Harry B. Smith
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World Premiere: March 28, 1927
    Location: 44th Street Theater
    Performances: 56
43. Title: My Maryland
    Form: Musical in 3 acts
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly
    Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly
    Template: Play Barbara Frietchie (1899) by William Clyde Fitch (1865–1909)
    Director: Jacob J. Shubert
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World Premiere: September 12, 1927
    Location: Jolson's 59th Street Theater
    Performances: 312
44. Title: My Princess
    Form: Operetta
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly
    Template: Acting The Proud Princess, a modern fairy-tale in four acts (1923) by Edward Sheldon (1886–1946) and Dorothy Donnelly
    Producer: Alfred E. Aarons (1865–1936)
    First performance: October 6, 1927
    Location: Shubert Theater
    Performances: 20
45. Title: The Love Call
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Edward Locke (1869–1945)
    Lyrics: Harry B. Smith
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert, L. Lawrence Weber (1872–1940)
    World premiere: October 24th 1927
    Location: Majestic Theater
    Performances: 88
46. Title: Rosalie
    Form: Musical in two acts
    Music: George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: William Anthony McGuire (1881–1940) and Guy Bolton (1884–1979)
    Lyrics: PG Wodehouse (1881–1975) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983 )
    Orchestration: Emil Gerstenberger, William Daly, Maurice De Packh (1896–1960), Hans Spialek, Max Steiner (1888–1971) and Hilding Anderson
    Choreography: Seymour Felix (1892–1961)
    Director: William Anthony McGuire
    Producer: Florenz Ziegfeld junior
    First performance: January 10, 1928
    Location: New Amsterdam Theater
    Performances: 335
47. Title: The New Moon
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab Music
    Director: Bobby Connolly (1895–1944)
    Producers: Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel
    World premiere: September 19, 1928
    Location: Imperial Theater ( afterwards Casino Theater )
    Performances: 509
48. Title: Nina Rosa
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Otto Harbach
    Lyrics: Irving Caesar (1895–1996)
    Directors: Jacob J. Shubert and JC Huffman
    Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
    World premiere: September 20, 1930
    Location: Majestic Theater
    performances: 137
49. Title: East Wind
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel
    Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
    Orchestration: Hans Spialek
    Director: Oscar Hammerstein II Music Director
    : Oscar Bradley (1893–1948)
    Choreography: Bobby Connolly
    Producer: Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel
    World premiere: October 27, 1931
    Location: Manhattan Theater
    Performances: 23 October 1931
50. Title: Melody
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Edward Childs Carpenter (1872–1950)
    Lyrics: Irving Caesar
    Director: George White
    Music Director: Alfred Goodman (1890–1972) Music Director
    : Bobby Connolly
    Producer: George White (1892–1968)
    World premiere: February 14, 1933
    Location: Casino Theater
    Performances: 79
51. Title: May Wine
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Frank Mandel
    Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
    Original: Roman The happy alienist: a Viennese caprice (1936) by Wallace Smith (1888–1937) and suggestions from films by Erich von Stroheim ( 1885–1957)
    Orchestration: Donald J. Walker and Russell Bennett (1894–1981)
    Director: José Ruben (1899–1969)
    Music Director: Robert Emmett Dolan (1906–1972) Music Director
    : Bobby Connolly
    Producer: George White (1892–1968)
    First performance: December 5, 1935
    Location: St. James Theater
    Performances: 213
52. Title: Forbidden Melody
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Otto Harbach
    Lyrics: Otto Harbach
    Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
    Director: Macklin Megley (1891–1965)
    Dialogue director: José Ruben
    Producers: Jack Kirkland (1902–1969) and Samuel H Grisman
    Premiere: November 2, 1936
    Location: New Amsterdam Theater,
    Performances: 32
53. Title: Sunny River
    Form: Musical in two acts
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II
    Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
    Orchestration: Donald J. Walker Direction: Oscar Hammerstein II and John Murray Anderson (1886–1954)
    Choreography: Carl Randall (1898– 1965)
    Producer: Max Gordon (1892–1978)
    First performance: December 4, 1941
    Location: St. James Theater
    Performances: 36
54. Title: Up in Central Park
    Form: Musical in two acts
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Herbert Fields (1897–1958) and Dorothy Fields (1905–1974)
    Lyrics: Dorothy Fields
    Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
    Director: John Kennedy
    Music director: Max Meth (1900–1984)
    Choreography: Helen Tamiris (1905–1966)
    Producer: Michael Todd (1909–1958) First
    performance: January 27, 1945
    Location: New Century Theater (then Broadway Theater )
    Performances: 504
55. Title: My Romance
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Rowland Leigh (1903–1963)
    Lyrics: Rowland Leigh
    Template: Play in three acts Romance (1913) by Edward Sheldon
    Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
    Director: Rowland Leigh
    Music director: Roland Fiore
    Choreography: Fredric N. Kelly (1916–2000)
    Producer: Michael Todd First
    performance: October 19, 1948
    Location: Shubert Theater (later Adelphi Theater )
    Performances: 95
56. Title: The Girl in Pink Tights
    Form: Musical
    Music: Sigmund Romberg
    Libretto: Jerome Chodorov (1911–2004) and Joseph A. Fields (1895–1966)
    Lyrics: Leo Robin (1900–1984)
    Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
    Arrangements ( Ballet Music ): Trude Rittman (1908–2005)
    Director: Shepard Traube (1907–1983)
    Music Director: Sylvan Levin
    Choreography: Agnes de Mille (1905–1993)
    Producer: Shepard Traube (1907–1983)
    World premiere: March 5, 1954
    Location: Mark Hellinger Theater
    Performances: 115

Film scores and adaptations

1. 1929: The Desert Song
2. 1930: New Moon
3. 1930: Viennese Nights
4. 1931: Children of Dreams
5. 1932: The Red Shadow
6. 1935: The Night Is Young
7. 1937: Maytime
8. 1937: They Gave Him a Gun
9. 1938: In the golden west
10. 1939: Let Freedom Ring
11. 1939: Broadway Serenade
12. 1940: New Moon
13. 1943: The Desert Song
14. 1948: Up in Central Park
15. 1951: The Two Mouseketeers
16. 1953: The Desert Song
17. 1954: The Student Prince
18. 1954: Deep in My Heart
19. 1954: The Desert Song (TV)

literature

• Elliott Arnold: Deep in My Heart: A Story Based on the Life of Sigmund Romberg . Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1949, 511 pp.

Web links

Commons : Sigmund Romberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sigmund Romberg in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Sigmund Romberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame: Sigmund Romberg , National Academy of Popular Music, New York (in English)
• Murray L. Pfeffer: Sigmund Romberg (Composers and Lyricists Database Plus, in English)
• Színészkonyvtár: Sigmund Romberg (in Hungarian)
• Hal Erickson : Deep in My Heart , All Movie Guide; Bosley Crowther : The Screen in Review; Romberg Film, Mostly Music, at Radio City , New York Times film review , December 10, 1954
• Goodbye (1915), text by Herbert Reynolds, melody by Sigmund Romberg ( text and music file )
• Lover, Come Back to Me (1928), text by Oscar Hammestein II, music by Sigmund Romberg
• The Desert Song , Operetta (1926), content , text of the title song by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, It (There was a time) (excerpt, mp3)