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 ...

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 ...

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.

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Opera Orlando is bringing one of opera’s best-known comedies back to the stage this month as part of its 10th anniversary season in Orlando. The company’s new production of The Merry Widow opens April ...

In the countryside of Shizuoka, tea plantations spread out around my childhood home, and after school I would run around the ...

Must all performances of The Merry Widow, Franz Lehár’s lighthearted operetta of 1905, be set in Paris? With Palm Beach now an international cultural center in its own right, the question occurred ...

Ronald Hynd’s “The Merry Widow” has amazing legs for a story ballet created in 1975. Countless three-act productions from the 20th-century have not endured, but “The Merry Widow,” based on Franz Lehár ...