musical theater history." Later years In the early 2000s, Gänzl and Bevan moved to a home in Sefton, New Zealand, where Gänzl completed biographies of Victorian burlesque queen Lydia Thompson, Broadway author William B. Gill and Victorian singing star Emily Soldene, and in 2017 a compendium of 100 biographies titled Victorian Vocalists. After Bevan's death in 2006, Gänzl spent time as a musical critic in Berlin, Germany, and then lived in Yamba, Australia. Gänzl has published more than a dozen books on musical theatre and contributed many biographical entries to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies and Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has also published biographies elsewhere, such as for Theatre Heritage Australia. Since 2007 he has contributed more than a thousand entries about Victorian and Edwardian singers, actors and musical theatre works, on his blog Kurt of Gerolstein. Over the years he has also worked with his younger brother, the poet John Gallas,"John Gallas", Carcanet Press, accessed 29 April 2014 on translations of works by Baudelaire, Verhaeren, Materlinck, Yourcenar, Anna de Noailles, Nerval, Florian and others, including Borel's Rhapsodies (2022).Zubair, Sarah-Jane. "Ecstatic and intoxicate", review of Rhapsodies 1831: Petrus Borel, The Times Literary Supplement, 30 September 2022 Gänzl has an avid interest in the sport of harness racing and has owned and bred racehorses. Books 1986: The British Musical Theatre (2 vols.; Macmillan Press) 1988: Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre (with Andrew Lamb; Bodley Head/Schirmer) 1989: The Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record. Blackwell 1990: The Complete "Aspects of Love" (Aurum Press) 1994: The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre (Blackwell/Schirmer; 2 vols, expanded in 2001 to 3 vols.) 1995: Musicals: the Illustrated Story (Carlton) 1995 (US edition of same): Song and Dance: The Complete Story of Stage Musicals (Smithmark Publishers) 1995: Gänzl's Book of the Broadway Musical (Schirmer; Macmillan) 1997: The Musical: A Concise History (Boston: Northeastern University Press 2002: Lydia Thompson: Queen of Burlesque (NY & London: Routledge) 2002: William B. Gill: From the Gold Fields to Broadway (Routledge) 2007: Emily Soldene: In Search of a Singer (Steele Roberts) 2017: Victorian Vocalists (Taylor and Francis) 2021: Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays (State University of New York Press) 2022: Rhapsodies 1831: Petrus Borel translated with John Gallas (Carcanet Classics) 2022: The Musical: A Concise History (2022 version) with Jamie Findlay (State University of New York Press) References External links Photos of