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 MET stages a silly romance in Lehar’s ‘The Merry Widow’ At 11 a.m. Saturday, the august Metropolitan Opera bravely will transmit Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” to the world. A warning: If you ...

Led by title performer Merry Widow, Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta features a rotating cast of local burlesque and theatrical talent that performs a variety of experiments, sketches and song-and-dance ...

KNOXVILLE, TN. (WATE) – At Knoxville Opera it is their mission to spread love for opera and they do this by making performances approachable. Their latest ‘The Merry Widow’ is in English and is an ...

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 ...

Pasadena City College celebrates the 100th anniversary of one of the most popular operettas as the PCC Performing and Communication Arts division presents “The Merry Widow,” June 10 and 11. Written by ...

For the better part of a decade, Ronald Hynd's biggest success as a choreographer was trapped at the bottom of the world. In 1975, Hynd was commissioned by the Australian Ballet to create his first ...

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 ...

There is hardly an opera company of any size that has not performed "The Merry Widow," written by the leading composer of 20th-century Viennese operetta, himself of Czech and Hungarian descent and the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production in Geneva of "The Merry Widow" uses razor-sharp timing to bring out the humour, in a production so fresh it seems Franz Lehar's operetta was written only yesterday.