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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 ...
Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow: Operetta: 3 acts: Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, after L'attaché d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac: 30 December 1905: Vienna, Theater an der Wien Der Schlüssel zum Paradies (revised version of Der Klavierstimmer) Operetta: 3 acts: Emil Norini and Julius Horst: October 1906: Leipzig Peter und Paul schlafen ins ...
Lamplighters Music Theatre is a semi-professional musical theatre company based in San Francisco, California.Founded in 1952 by Orva Hoskinson and Ann Pool MacNab, the Lamplighters specialize in light opera, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as such works as The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, Of Thee I Sing, My Fair Lady, Candide, and A Little Night Music.
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, [1] and length of the work. [2] Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. [3]
Interestingly, thirteen became a recurring number throughout her life, such as the thirteen-year gap between her overseas tours in Europe; [113] principal photography for The Merry Widow had taken thirteen weeks to film; [112] her first movie, The Love Parade, was the number-one box-office draw for 13 weeks; [114] MacDonald performed opera for ...
The Ackermann recording received the highest available rating in the 1956 The Record Guide [5] and the later EMI set under Matačić is highly rated by the 2008 The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music, [7] but Alan Blyth in his Opera on CD regrets the casting of a baritone as Danilo in both sets and prefers the 1958 Decca version. [8]
Individual songs from some of the operettas have become standards, notably "Vilja" from The Merry Widow and "You Are My Heart's Delight" ("Dein ist mein ganzes Herz") from The Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns). His most ambitious work, Giuditta in 1934 is closer to opera than to operetta. It contains the ever popular "Meine Lippen, sie ...
The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (LACLO) was an American theatre/opera company in Los Angeles, California. Founded under the motto "Light Opera in the Grand Opera manner" in 1938 by impresario Edwin Lester , the organization presented fifty seasons of theatre before closing due to financial reasons in 1987.