The Operetta

Marcel Prawy led me to the Heldentenor, but he also awakened in me a love of operetta that remains unbroken to this day. Marcel Prawy was a true contemporary of the century, in all its drama, but also in its unbroken musical beauty. And he was an operetta lover through and through, with an incredible, inexhaustible knowledge, which he also used to bring back forgotten operetta composers from the past - their music, their talent, but also their suffering in the forced emigration of the 1930s and 1940s. I remember countless concerts with Marcel Prawy, I leaf through the many letters he wrote me, with reports, hints, unforgettable remarks and suggestions.

My friendly relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra finally enabled me to found my own ensemble, "Herbert Lippert and his Philharmonic Friends", with the aim of reviving the silver and gold operetta.

 

Unknown operetta songs alternated with well-known melodies in our programs, creating a wonderful symbiosis of old and new.

"OMIA - Operetta Made In Austria", a documentary-historical, multimedia, innovative event with young musicians and established singers is the continuation of this work and witness to my unbroken love for operetta