Di Goldene Kallah (“The Golden Bride”) premiered on New York’s Lower East Side in 1923 to a packed audience and remained a staple of the Yiddish stage until after World War II. The New York-based National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene now has plans to revive it. Joshua Barone writes:
In the operetta, a beautiful young woman named Goldele, who was abandoned as a child, receives an unexpected inheritance and sets off on a journey to claim her estate, find her mother, and offer her hand to the man who can help.
[The play] dropped out of the New York theater scene after 1948. The main reason: “People just stopped speaking Yiddish,” said Michael Ochs, a musicologist who discovered the remnants of the operetta’s score and libretto about 25 years ago, . . . while working at the Harvard Library.
Read more on New York Times: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/a-yiddish-operetta-once-lost-will-receive-its-full-first-staging-in-70-years/