Article: A decade of fun & frivolity: Toronto Operetta Theatre. (includes related article on production of 'Die Fledermaus')

Guillermo Silva-Marin and Henry Ingram both felt that operetta, well-remembered by older people, shouldn't die. They believed that it should be preserved not only for those with nostalgia for it, but for younger people who, they felt sure, would come to enjoy an art form that stands somewhere between opera and musical comedy.

In 1984 they had been involved in a production of Lehar's The Land of Smiles which did well. The following year the team of Silva-Marin & Ingram took a chance and revived the famous operetta, The Count of Luxembourg. To make the announcement, they took soprano Christin Gregory to the top of the world's tallest free-standing structure, the CN ...

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