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 ...

THE STATE Theatre in Košice will premiere Franz Lehár's most famous operetta Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) on September 24 and 25 at 19:00.Referred to as the "queen of operettas" the work was ...

John Savournin has huge fun transplanting Lehár’s fictional Balkan Neverland to mafioso Manhattan in a hyperactive production An enormous rococo sofa dominates the stage. Great artworks jostle for ...

Suddenly, Franz Lehar's 1905 sentimental charmer "The Merry Widow," long a staple of light opera and music theater festivals, has made its way into big time. It landed at the Metropolitan Opera two ...

There's a charmer of an operetta buried alive under the gaudy plebeian spectacle that Lotfi Mansouri and his cronies have made of Franz Lehar's luscious "Merry Widow," the last and most immodest of ...

The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film. This is ...