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  • Witwe is one of three operas this season (the others being Hansel und Gretel and Mahagonny) that the company elected to present in English translation.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Witwe is one of three operas this season (the others being Hansel und Gretel and Mahagonny) that the company elected to present in English translation.

    Comedy isn't pretty 2007

  • Franz Lehár Vienna, Austria, 1905Together with Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe sums up the joys of Viennese operetta: infectiously, waltzingly melodic, with dinners chez Maxim, dancing girls and a glimpse of Balkan Europe in the last days of old aristocracy.

    Top 50 operas 2011

  • Edwardes wanted to put on The Merry Widow and took Elsie with him to Berlin to see the original German version, Die Lustige Witwe.

    Cocotte of the Week: Lily Elsie | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • Und die minderjährige Witwe deren Namen jeder weiss wachte auf und war geschändet, Mackie, welches war dein Preis?

    SF0 2009

  • The hat was just another part of the costume designed by Lucile for statuesque English theater star Lily Elsie, who was to play the main character, Hanna Glawari, in the 1907 English adaptation of Franz Lehár’s operetta, Die lustige Witwe.

    The Merry Widow Hat | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Here’s hoping LA Opera can pull off as successful an evening with their upcoming English-language Die lustige Witwe next week.

    Southern Comfort 2007

  • Here’s hoping LA Opera can pull off as successful an evening with their upcoming English-language Die lustige Witwe next week.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Which really gets to the heart of the problem with LA Opera’s current production of Die Lustige Witwe.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Which really gets to the heart of the problem with LA Opera’s current production of Die Lustige Witwe.

    Comedy isn't pretty 2007

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