Walter Kollo
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Germany
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composer of operetta
Operetta
Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
s, Possen mit Gesang
Posse mit Gesang
Posse mit Gesang is a form of popular German-language music drama, that developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early examples are sometimes called 'Possenspil' or 'Possenspiel'...
, and Singspiel
Singspiel
A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera...
e as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher.
Kollo was born in Neidenburg, East Prussia
East Prussia
East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...
. His best known work, the operetta Wie einst in Mai (1913), was the basis of a 1917 Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
operetta in America entitled Maytime
Maytime (musical)
Maytime is a musical with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young, and with additional lyrics by Cyrus Wood. The musical is based on the 1913 German operetta Wie einst im Mai, composed by Walter Kollo, with words by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Schanzer. Maytime introduced...
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Kollo died in Berlin
Berlin
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. His son Willi Kollo was also a composer of light music and his grandson is the celebrated Wagnerian tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
René Kollo
René Kollo
René Kollo is a German tenor.-Biography:He was born René Kollodzieyski in Berlin and grew up in Wyk auf Föhr. He attended a photography school in Hamburg, although he had always been interested in music, particularly conducting. He did not begin to perform until the mid-50s...
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List of operettas
- 1911 - Sein Herzensjunge (1 April 1911, Thalia-Theater, Wuppertal-Elberfeld)
- 1911 - Große Rosinen (31 December 1911, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1912 - Filmzauber (19 October 1912, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1912 - So wird’s gemacht (December 1912, Neues Theater, Hamburg)
- 1913 - Wie einst im Mai (first version, 4 October 1913, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1913 - Der Juxbaron (14 November 1913, Carl Schultze-Theater, Hamburg)
- 1914 - Immer feste druff (1 October 1914, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin)
- 1915 - Wenn zwei Hochzeit machen (23 October 1915, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1916 - Der selige Balduin (31 March 1916, Montis Operetten-Theater, Berlin)
- 1916 - Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (9 September 1916, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1917 - Drei alte Schachteln (6 October 1917, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin)
- 1917 - Die tolle Komteß (21 February 1917, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1918 - Blitzblaues Blut (9 February 1918, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1918 - Sterne, die wieder leuchten (6 September 1918, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1919 - Fräulein Puck (25 June 1919, Münchner VolkstheaterMünchner VolkstheaterMünchner Volkstheater is a theatre in Munich, Germany which is operated by the cultural office of that city's government. The original theatre opened in 1903. The theatre was rebuilt in 1955 and again in 1983.-External links:*...
, München) - 1920 - Der verjüngte Adolar (4 October 1920, Theater in der Kommandantenstraße, Berlin)
- 1921 - Die Königin der Nacht (2 September 1921, Neues Operettentheater, Berlin)
- 1922 - Lady Chic (11 March 1922, Neues Operettentheater, Berlin)
- 1923 - Marietta (22 December 1923, Metropol-Theater, Berlin)
- 1924 - Die tanzende Prinzessin (15 April 1924, Komische Oper, Berlin)
- 1924 - Die vertagte (Hochzeits) Nacht (11 November 1924, Stadttheater,. Mainz)
- 1924 - Die vertauschte Frau (Neues Operettenhaus, Berlin)
- 1924 - Die Frau ohne Kuß (5 July 1924, Schillertheater, Berlin)
- 1925 - Olly-Polly (3 September 1925, Neues Theater am Zoo, Berlin)
- 1926 - Nur Du (23 December 1926, Berliner Theater, Berlin)
- 1927 - Drei arme kleine Mädels (22 April 1917, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin)
- 1928 - Jettchen Gebert (22 December 1928, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin)
- 1930 - Der doppelte Bräutigam (7 March 1930, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin)
- 1930 - Majestät läßt bitten (5 April 1930, Komische Oper, Berlin)
- 1931 - Frauen haben das gern (4 June 1931, Komische Oper, Berlin)
- 1933 - Die Männer sind mal so (4 January 1933, Schillertheater, Berlin)
- 1933 - Lieber reich aber glücklich (Komödienhaus, Berlin)
- 1934 - Derfflinger (17 February 1935, Metropol-Theater, Berlin)
- 1935 - Heirat nicht ausgeschlossen (4 January 1935, Komische Oper, Berlin)
- 1935 - Ein Kaiser ist verliebt (22 August 1935, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Osnabrück)
- 1935 - Berlin, wie es weint, Berlin, wie es lacht (10 October 1935, Plaza, Berlin)
- 1935 - Pour plaire aux femmes (nach "Frauen haben das gern") (17 October 1935, Théatre Déjazet, Paris)
- 1936 - Mädel ahoi (17 April 1936, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Osnabrück)
- 1938 - Das Schiff der schönen Frauen (25 December 1938, Apollo-Theater, Köln)
- 1943 - Wie einst im Mai (Walter und Willi Kollo) (26 May 1943, Theater des Volkes Berlin)
Recordings
Kolo's grandson René KolloRené Kollo
René Kollo is a German tenor.-Biography:He was born René Kollodzieyski in Berlin and grew up in Wyk auf Föhr. He attended a photography school in Hamburg, although he had always been interested in music, particularly conducting. He did not begin to perform until the mid-50s...
has recorded a CD of songs and arias by Walter Kollo entitled 'Auf den Spuren meiner Väter: René Kollo sings Kollo', 2009, CD EMI).