Her story is the basis for Margaret Landon's 1944 book "Anna and the King of Siam," which inspired Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to create their legendary musical stage production premiering on Broadway in 1951 with Yul Brynner and ...
But now that I've seen the Lyric Opera's version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic, I'm not sure I ever need to see another version. It's just that good. (Don't worry, Yul Brynner, I'll get around to the movie version eventually!) What impressed me ...
"Grand Night" recalls the musical works of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The Rodgers and Hammerstein 20 year partnership, from about 1940 until Hammerstein's death in 1959, created ten major works while defining a genre. This 1993 look ...
It was a special treat to spend an evening listening to excellent vocalists and musicians performing eighteen songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, two of the greatest musical composers in American Theatre history. This large-scale production ...
Nadat componist Jerome Kern en tekstschrijver Oscar Hammerstein overleden waren, stonden hun weduwes tegen iemand op een party over hen op te scheppen. „Mijn man schreef Ol' Man River”, zei de weduwe Kern. „Nee”, corrigeerde de weduwe ...
At the Lyric Opera now through May 22, 2016, the musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II relates the battles the widow Anna faced when she left British colonial Singapore in the 1860s to help the King of Siam (known as Mongkut) “westernize” ...