The problem with the L.A. Opera’s version of “Merry Widow” goes back to 1981, when the San Francisco Opera’s Lotfi Mansouri created an oversized gala version for its then-reigning diva, Joan ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Merry Widow," ("Die lustige Witwe") by Franz Lehár, capped a colorful and robust Palm Beach Opera season that easily navigated unprecedented times in the vocal arts. The cast did not hold ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But The Merry Widow in the rarified aura of Glyndebourne? The company did tackle this famous 1905 operetta for a few concert performances when their theatre was shut (narrated by Dirk Bogarde, no less ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Lehár's charming, uplifting comedy The Merry Widow plays out in a stream of ...

After making something of a departure over the summer with a production of The Drowsy Chaperone and some evenings of Drag Queen Bingo, the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre returns to more traditional fare ...