This is FRESH AIR. The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow," one of the most beloved operettas ever written, in a new production staring soprano ...

Opera on 3 Live from the Met, Lehar's The Merry Widow Lehar's The Merry Widow with set designs by Julian Crouch. From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Andrew Davis conducts Leh ...

Renée Fleming stars in Susan Stroman’s new production of Lehár’s beloved operetta, opposite Kelli O’Hara and Nathan Gunn. Sir Andrew Davis conducts.

Franz Lehár's beloved operetta The Merry Widow charms in an original production featuring dancers from the Orlando Ballet with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in the pit led by conductor Noam Aviel ...

If you’re still trying to shake pandemic doldrums, nothing fuels a can-do spirit quite like a can-can. When Charlottesville Opera opens its second production of the season, Franz Lehar’s “The Merry ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...

NEW YORK — I envy my New York Times colleague Michael Cooper, who recently got to see the Metropolitan Opera stars Susan Graham and Paul Groves off duty, belting Queen and Journey at a karaoke bar on ...

Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár’s 1905 comic operetta “Die Lustige Witwe/The Merry Widow” gets a Minnesota twist in a new adaptation presented by Opera on the Lake. Original spoken dialogue by ...

(SANTA CLARITA, CA) March 5, 2024 – Santa Clarita’s opera company, Mission Opera has been selected to present ‘The Merry Widow: Madonna’ as part of the OPERA America National Conference and World ...

Broadway came uptown on New Year’s Eve, showering the Metropolitan Opera House with showbiz glitz at the premiere of Susan Stroman’s new production of “The Merry Widow.” The opera world offered its ...

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In recent years Britain's leading opera companies have sought to "broaden their audiences and expand their repertory", said Nicholas Kenyon in The Daily Telegraph. We've had "Sweeney Todd" at the ...