A report on The Merry Widow
Operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.
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Franz Lehár
4 linksAustro-Hungarian composer.
Austro-Hungarian composer.
He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
Daly's Theatre
3 linksTheatre in the City of Westminster.
Theatre in the City of Westminster.
The theatre was built for and named after the American impresario Augustin Daly, but he failed to make a success of it, and between 1895 and 1915 the British producer George Edwardes ran the house, where he presented a series of long-running musical comedies, including The Geisha (1896), and English adaptations of operettas, including The Merry Widow (1907).
Robert Evett
2 linksEnglish singer, actor, theatre manager and producer.
English singer, actor, theatre manager and producer.
He continued to star in musicals and operettas for the next decade, including in The Little Michus (1905), The Merry Widow (1907), A Waltz Dream (1908) and The Girl in the Train (1910).
George Edwardes
3 linksEnglish theatre manager and producer of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond.
English theatre manager and producer of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond.
After a falling out with Coffin, Edwardes found success at Daly's with a series of English-language adaptations of European operettas, including Les p'tites Michu (1905), The Merry Widow (1907), The Dollar Princess (1910), The Count of Luxemburg (1911) and The Marriage Market (1913).
Viktor Léon
1 linksWell-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist.
Well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist.
He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
Joan Sutherland
2 linksAustralian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
The opera house management then declined to stage the operetta The Merry Widow especially for her, as requested; subsequently, she did not perform at the Met during that time at all, even though a production of Rossini's Semiramide had also been planned, but later she returned there to sing in other operas.
Basil Hood
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Basil Willett Charles Hood (5 April 1864 – 7 August 1917) was a British dramatist and lyricist, perhaps best known for writing the libretti of half a dozen Savoy Operas and for his English adaptations of operettas, including The Merry Widow.
Leo Stein (writer)
1 linksPlaywright and librettist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works adapted for a number of Broadway productions.
Playwright and librettist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works adapted for a number of Broadway productions.
A selection of his works includes Wiener Blut (1899), Die lustige Witwe (1905), Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909) and Die Csárdásfürstin (1915).
Adrian Ross
1 linksProlific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He also wrote the English lyrics for a series of hit adaptations of European operettas beginning with The Merry Widow in 1907.
Essgee Entertainment
2 linksProfessional performing and publishing company formed in 1981 in Australia.
Professional performing and publishing company formed in 1981 in Australia.
In 1998, Essgee presented a large-scale production of the operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár in Brisbane Australia.