Volume 22, Number 2

| Note from the Editor | 3 |
| Letters | 3 |
| BREGENZ FESTIVAL | |
| Der Protagonist / Royal Palace HORST KOEGLER | 4 |
| Der Kuhhandel LARRY L. LASH | 6 |
| Zaubernacht HORST KOEGLER | 8 |
| FEATURE | |
| Weill, the Operettenkrise, and the Offenbach Renaissance JOEL GALAND | 9 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Dialog der Künste: Die Zusammenarbeit von Kurt Weill und Yvan Goll, by Ricarda Wackers ESBJÖRN NYSTRÖM | 16 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Here Lies Jenny in New York WILLIAM V. MADISON | 18 |
| Der Zar lässt sich photographieren and Die sieben Todsünden in Flensburg MATHIAS LEHMANN | 19 |
| Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Nuremberg RAINER FRANKE | 20 |
| RECORDING REVIEWS | |
| Royal Palace and Der neue Orpheus on Capriccio DAVID HAMILTON | 21 |
| VIDEO REVIEWS | |
| The Seven Deadly Sins on Kultur Street Scene on Image Entertainment Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny on Kultur WILLIAM V. MADISON | 22 |
| TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |
Volume 22, Number 1

| Letters | 3 |
| Note from the Editor | 3 |
| FEATURE: ROYAL PALACE | |
| Royal Palace: Moving toward Epic (Music)Theater RICARDA WACKERS | 4 |
| Escape into Opera (1927) YVAN GOLL | 8 |
| News from the Archive | 9 |
| A PERFORMER’S REPORT | |
| Impressions of Unsung Weill MICHAEL FEINSTEIN | 10 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Street Scene in Dessau ANDREAS HAUFF | 12 |
| Die Dreigroschenoper in Hamburg CHRISTIAN KUHNT | 13 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, ed. William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird LARRY STEMPEL | 14 |
| Music and Nazism: Art under Tyranny, 1933-1945, ed. Michael H. Kater and Albrecht Riethmüller LEO TREITLER | 16 |
| TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |