Finally!” they muttered all around me as Hanna and Danilo kissed passionately after two and three quarters acts of witty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Danielle de Niese (centre) and cast in Glyndebourne's new staging of The Merry Widow - Alastair Muir As opera companies seek to ...

An opera review by Victor Grynberg Franz Lehar, the Austro-Hungarian composer born in 1870, composed the music in 1905 based ...

Opera Orlando closes its MainStage season with The Merry Widow, performed April 24 and 26 at Steinmetz Hall. The production stars soprano Sarah Joy Miller, known for her role in HBO's The Gilded Age, ...

TEMPTING though it is to describe this as a timeless operetta, especially given this sparkling reincarnation by ...

Opera Australia presents Graeme Murphy's production of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, performed in English and set in the opulent art deco era of 1920s Paris. The production features sets by Michael ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Opera Orlando is bringing one of opera’s best-known comedies back to the stage this month as part of its 10th anniversary season in Orlando. The company’s new production of 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 ...

I realise this might not be quite McCrystal’s opinion. To judge from his approach in Sussex, he sees the work as a comedy with musical attachments. Or from a slightly different angle, he sees it as a ...

"The Merry Widow" represents a transitional moment in opera. The operetta (a lighter, shorter opera) was a huge success when it debuted in Vienna in 1905, and it built onto that success through an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opera Orlando is bringing one of opera’s best-known comedies back to the stage this month as part of its 10th anniversary season ...