Soprano Jennifer Rowley will sing the role of Hanna Glawari in Palm Beach Opera's production of "The Merry Widow" from March 25-27. Things are fiscally tight in Pontevedro, the fictional Balkan ...

(SANTA CLARITA, CA) March 5, 2024 – Santa Clarita’s opera company, Mission Opera has been selected to present ‘The Merry Widow: Madonna’ as part of the OPERA America National Conference and World ...

“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 ...

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" represents a transitional moment in opera. The operetta (a lighter, shorter opera) was a huge success when it debuted in Vienna in 1905, and it built onto that success through an ...

The glamorous widow of a millionaire from Pontevedro, Hannah Glavari, is back in Paris and looking for a new love. The future of the tiny nation depends on her choice, or they will go bankrupt! With ...

Opera NEO’s founder and artistic director Peter Kozma is a maestro on a mission. Born in Hungary, he was trained internationally, with degrees in vocal performance and pedagogy from the Franz Liszt ...

The Merry Widow, Opera Queensland’s latest offering, which opens in the Lyric Theatre at Brisbane’s QPAC later this month, is lavish, to say the least. A co-production involving several state opera ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles Opera’s sort-of-new production of “The Merry Widow” might well have offered a polyglot Pontevedro on Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The director, Lotfi Mansouri, grew ...

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 ...