"The Merry Widow," ("Die lustige Witwe") by Franz Lehár, capped a colorful and robust Palm Beach Opera season that easily navigated unprecedented times in the vocal arts. The cast did not hold ...

KNOXVILLE, TN. (WATE) – At Knoxville Opera it is their mission to spread love for opera and they do this by making performances approachable. Their latest ‘The Merry Widow’ is in English and is an ...

“The Merry Widow” is just as merry - and conflicted - as she was when Austrian audiences first embraced her in 1905. Her look will be Victorian but her themes will resonate with Eastern Iowa audiences ...

When I asked superstar soprano Danielle de Niese about her next singing engagement, I wasn’t expecting her to answer that it would be in Davos, opening the World Economic Forum. Apparently that’s ...

Things are fiscally tight in Pontevedro, the fictional Balkan principality, unless its ambassador to France can persuade the widow Hanna Glawari to keep her fortune in the country and save it from ...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Opera opens its 40th season Nov. 9 with Lehar's "The Merry Widow." The production, set in Paris in 1900, tells of a young widow being pressured to marry to preserve her ...

Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár’s 1905 comic operetta “Die Lustige Witwe/The Merry Widow” gets a Minnesota twist in a new adaptation presented by Opera on the Lake. Original spoken dialogue by ...

Susan Graham sings the title role of the fabulous woman of the world who sets out to conquer glamorous old Paris and get the one thing that has eluded her—a commitment from her playboy first love.

Impressive productions are Harvard College Opera’s bread and butter. In the past decade, the group has successfully brought the likes of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” and Jules Massenet’s “Cendrillon” to ...