There's a charmer of an operetta buried alive under the gaudy plebeian spectacle that Lotfi Mansouri and his cronies have made of Franz Lehar's luscious "Merry Widow," the last and most immodest of ...

Get ready to indulge in the Viennese torte known as Franz Lehár's comedic operetta The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe). Set in the heart of vibrant fin de siècle Paris, the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari ...

The Merry Widow In her second operatic triumph of the local season, Susan Graham has offered up everybody's dream Widow in Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow" -- the wisdom, the cynicism, the lustrous ...

NARROWSBURG — Franz Lehar's operetta "The Merry Widow" has been performed as a ballet and a film (1934), and its best television production aired in 1977 on PBS starring Beverly Sills in the leading ...

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Things are fiscally tight in Pontevedro, the fictional Balkan principality, unless its ambassador to France can persuade the widow Hanna Glawari to keep her fortune in the country and save it from ...

The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film. This is ...

The lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow is the Met debut of Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman. Soprano Renée Fleming adds a new character to her Met ...