Looking for a musical evening with a little class but no stuffy business? Maybe you like your orchestras with a side of Britney Spears? Sounds like Max Raabe’s beautifully nostalgiac vocal stylings, ...

When musician and acclaimed baritone Max Raabe arrived in Berlin in the mid-'80s, he was expecting to find the cabarets and variety theaters his grandmother told him about, but they were long gone. So ...

The mischievous glint of Weimar cabaret culture will meet the glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Age, as Max Raabe appears with his Palast Orchester at McCarter Theatre on Wednesday. The program will ...

These followed Raabe’s 1992 breakthrough hit, “Kein Schwein Ruft Mich An” (which translates, literally, as “No Swine Ever Calls Me”). He and his 12-piece Palast Orchester (Palace Orchestra) also ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. The music of decadent but elegant Weimar Germany and of the ...

With his slicked-back hair, arched eyebrows and string-bean frame filling out an elegant white-tie tuxedo, singer Max Raabe looks like he just stepped out of a Fred Astaire film. And when this German ...

Over the past three decades Max Raabe and Palast Orchester have become the voice of old Berlin, playing the band music of the German capital in the ’20s and early ’30s—the years of the Weimar Republic ...

A Berliner, however, in white tie and tails. Champagne in hand. A study in elegance, charisma and silkily ironic wit. A Jazz Age Berliner, that is, from the Weimar era. Wait, sorry. I got a little ...

In November 2007 German singer Max Raabe performed at Carnegie Hall with the Palast Orchester, presenting a half-English, half-German program of songs from the golden years of Weimar Germany. The ...

The celebratory atmosphere or Stimmung of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s-a heady mixture of decadence, anxiety, and ambiguity-remains a high point in the history of culture. Made popular with American ...

When Max Raabe with an incredibly straight face, ironically raised, eyebrow and slightly bent elbow enters the stage almost carelessly, he sends a sardonic look to the audience and with the greatest ...