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Franz Lehár. The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe [diː ˈlʊstɪɡə ˈvɪtvə]) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The ...
In "The Vilia Song" (German: Das Vilja-Lied), from the 1905 operetta The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) by Franz Lehár, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein (and translated by Adrian Ross), a hunter pines for Vilia, "the witch of the wood", a fairy being who causes him to fall in love with her and then vanishes.
The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. The film was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. A French-language version was produced at the same time and released in France the same year as La veuve joyeuse.
The Merry Widow is a 1952 American film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It starred Lana Turner (whose singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin ) and Fernando Lamas .
The Merry Widow. The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama/black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim.Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, and Tully Marshall, [3] [4] with pre-fame uncredited appearances by Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
The Merry Widow ballet is a 1975 adaptation of Franz Lehár's 1905 romantic operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).. John Lanchbery and Alan Abbott adapted the score of the operetta for ballet and retained the style of Lehár's orchestration.
Lehár in 1906. Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), [nb 1] the eldest son of Franz Lehar Sr. (1838–1898), [1] an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt (1849–1906), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent.
The Merry Widow (Hungarian: A Víg özvegy) is a 1918 Hungarian musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. It is based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehár. Plot summary