Best Friml
Rose-Marie is an American operetta composed by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart. It premiered in 1924 and achieved significant popularity through the iconic ballad "Indian Love Call." The story centers on a romance between a Canadian frontiersman and a Native American girl, exploring themes of cult...
The Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta composed by Rudolf Friml, featuring a libretto by Brian Hooker and William H. Post. It is based on the 1901 novel and play If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy, which dramatizes the life of the 15th-century French poet and criminal François Villon. The origin...
The Firefly is an operetta in three acts by Rudolf Friml, with book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, premiering on Broadway in 1912. It was Friml's first stage success and helped establish him as a major composer of American operetta. The story follows a street singer in 18th-cen...
Three Musketeers is an American operetta with music by Czech-born composer Rudolf Friml, adapted from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel "The Three Musketeers." The work premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on March 13, 1928, with book by Clifford Grey and William Anthony McGuire. This operetta bel...
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Friml's tuneful score and Dumas source earned substantial popularity; revival frequency and critical stature remain moderate.
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Katinka is an American operetta with music by Rudolf Friml and a book and lyrics by Otto Harbach. It opened on Broadway in 1915 and follows a romantic story that moves through settings in Austria-Hungary and Russia. Written for the early twentieth-century musical stage, it combines spoken scenes, so...
High Jinks is an American operetta with music by Rudolf Friml and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach. It opened on Broadway in 1913 and centers on a perfume whose effects cause people to behave with unusual frankness and uninhibitedness, providing the work's central comic device.
Sometime is an American operetta with music by Rudolf Friml and a book by Rida Johnson Young. It opened on Broadway in 1918 and belongs to the early twentieth-century American musical-theatre tradition that combined songs, spoken dialogue, and romantic stage comedy. The production is also associated...
American operetta with music by Rudolf Friml and book by Otto Harbach and William Cary Duncan that opened on Broadway in 1922, adapted from a French farce.
You're in Love is an American operetta with music by Rudolf Friml and a book and lyrics credited to Otto Harbach and Edward Clark. It belongs to the early twentieth-century musical-theatre tradition that combined a romantic plot with songs, comic situations, and orchestral accompaniment. The work re...
