Review: THE MERRY WIDOW, Opera Holland Park by Franco Milazzo - June 20, 2025 On the face of it, three celebrated opera companies joining forces is, without doubt, A Good Thing. This adaptation of ...

Even without the flutes of bubbly normally featured in Viennese operettas, there are plenty of good reasons the 150-year-old musical genre is dubbed “champagne opera”. The effervescent delight of the ...

Nostalgia has come home to roost on Broadway. For the fourth* time in nine months an oldtime Viennese-type operetta started packing in the customers. This time it was Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow.

The latest news and top stories on Franz Lehár. Known as a prominent Austro-Hungarian composer, he is celebrated for his operettas, most notably 'The Merry Widow', which achieved worldwide success and ...

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 ...

The Philippine Ballet Theatre (PBT) will launch its 2025 season with The Merry Widow, a ballet adaptation of Franz Lehár’s operetta, at the Samsung Performing Arts Theatre on April 5 and 6. Set in ...

With audiences growing again after a post-COVID pandemic lull, the Sarasota Opera will once again stage a full production in the fall, leading into into a winter season that will include a celebration ...

The Merry Widow first appeared in Manhattan in 1907, was last revived in 1921. The Widow of the present revival is a comely Dutchwoman, Beppie de Vries, who sings Franz Lehar’s score considerably ...

There was much to fuel the excitement around a brand new production of Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” for Glyndebourne Festival Opera this year. It’s the first time the work has ever been mounted ...

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 ...