He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1985 to study operetta production in Europe, and he subsequently directed many stage productions, including Gilbert and Sullivan operas, Countess Maritza and The Czardas Princess by Emmerich Kálmán, and the Mozart operas The Abduction from the Seraglio and Così fan tutte.
There are a number of film versions of the operetta, including : Gräfin Mariza (1932), directed by Richard Oswald with Dorothea Wieck and Hubert Marischka; Gräfin Mariza (1958), directed by Rudolf Schündler with Christine Görner and Rudolf Schock; Gräfin Mariza (1974), directed by Eugen York with Ljuba Welitsch and René Kollo.
She portrayed the title role in a student production of Emmerich Kálmán's Gräfin Mariza during her first year in the program.
Gräfin Mariza | Mariza | Gräfin Mariza (1958 film) | Gräfin Mariza (1932 film) |
After starting work as a secretary Revoil followed courses in singing and acting at the Marseille Conservatoire, making her debut in Gillette de Narbonne in Montpellier in 1928 (which also marked her farewell to the stage in 1957), then appeared in Mulhouse in Comtesse Maritza, before joining the company in Le Havre, singing in operettas from both the Paris and Vienna traditions (including the French premiere of Frasquita), as well as in Carmen.