This is FRESH AIR. The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow," one of the most beloved operettas ever written, in a new production staring soprano ...

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 ...

Franz Lehar’s operetta “The Land of Smiles” has not received a Chicago production in more than 25 years and the bittersweet romantic confection has not fared much better anywhere else in this country ...

It was grand night in Vienna, or rather a grand Saturday afternoon at Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda which successfully ...

The Graz University of the Arts is presenting Franz Lehar's operetta "The Merry Widow" at the Mumuth. Definitely worth seeing, because an amazing generation of young artists is growing up here. The ...

Lyric Opera probably didn’t need another new production of “The Merry Widow” so soon after its 2009 Gary Griffin staging of the beloved Franz Lehar operetta. Still, with a lavish, relatively new ...

Growing up in central Ohio in the 1990s and early 2000s, Adam Cioffari remembers attending operetta after operetta. The genre — distinct from traditional operas for its lighter music and storylines — ...