San Francisco Opera general manager Lotfi Mansouri created an opulent production of Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” as his swan song last year when he ended his 13-year tenure at the company. He ...
The lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow is the Met debut of Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman. Soprano Renée Fleming adds a new character to her Met ...
If Franz Lehar's 1905 operetta The Merry Widow seemed dated and old-fashioned to critics when it was revived as the second offering of the new Music Theatre of the Lincoln Center in 1964 under the ...