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 ...

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 ...

Rutland’s Paramount Theatre and Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater will continue their “Live in HD from the Met” Series Saturday at 12:55 p.m. with a live broadcast of Lehar’s “The Merry Widow.” The ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — I envy my New York Times colleague Michael Cooper, who recently got to see the Metropolitan Opera stars Susan Graham and Paul Groves off duty, belting Queen and Journey at a karaoke bar on ...

Renée Fleming and Nathan Gunn in their Act II duet in The Merry Widow. Renée Fleming (Hanna) and Nathan Gunn (Danilo) perform an excerpt of their Act II duet "Hello, Here's a Soldier Bold" from ...

But The Merry Widow in the rarified aura of Glyndebourne? The company did tackle this famous 1905 operetta for a few concert performances when their theatre was shut (narrated by Dirk Bogarde, no less ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...