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2 unusual facts about Oscar Hammerstein


Oscar Hammerstein

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), Broadway lyricist, songwriting partner of Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers

Oscar Hammerstein I (1847–1919), cigar manufacturer, opera impresario and theatre builder


Cape Town Opera

Notable international productions include performances for the opening of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Puccini's Turandot with NorrlandsOperan, a 2005 European tour of Jerome Kern's and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat, and performances of Porgy and Bess with both the Welsh National Opera and NorrlandsOperan in 2006, and Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2008.

Marguerite d'Alvarez

Following her season in New York City, she went to London to help Oscar Hammerstein inaugurate his London Opera in 1911; that year, she scored great successes in French roles.

Martha-Bryan Allen

She played Lucy Blake in Gypsy Jim, a three-act play by Oscar Hammerstein and Milton Herbert Gropper, Appolonia Lee in Sophie Treadwell’s O, Nightingale, and Myrtle Carey in The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini and J. Harold Terry.


see also

48th Directors Guild of America Awards

Matthew Diamond – Some Enchanted Evening, Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein

Music in the Air

Directed by Oscar Hammerstein II the cast featured Jane Pickens, Dennis King and Charles Winninger.