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Jun 24, 2024 · There was much to fuel the excitement around a brand new production of Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” for Glyndebourne Festival Opera this year. It’s the first time the work has ever been mounted there, and it’s always a treat to see what the slickly-oiled operatic operation, with its six weeks of rehearsals, can do when faced with ...
I didn’t manage to check the Glyndebourne gift shop, but there was never much likelihood of them selling the Widow short. Cal McCrystal’s new staging is a sugar rush for the eyes; a gorgeous ...
- Richard Bratby
Jun 10, 2024 · The in-jokes come thick and fast in Glyndebourne’s first-ever staging of Franz Lehár’s operetta, The Merry Widow. Everything has been thrown at this snazzy, frothy tunefest; direction by ...
Jun 10, 2024 · Review. The Merry Widow, Glyndebourne: Danielle de Niese shines in a stunning, if jokey, production. The Merry Widow in this most rarified of country-house settings? She may not entirely...
- Chief Opera Critic
The Merry Widow of the title is Hanna, whose husband has died leaving her a large fortune, making her the richest person in the fictional princedom of Pontevedro.
Jun 20, 2024 · Danielle de Niese is "compelling" as Hanna Glawari, the widow; Germán Olvera is magnificently charismatic as her long-lost love.
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Apr 4, 2024 · His planned surprises for the tropes of Merry Widow are inevitably under wraps – they wouldn’t be surprising otherwise. But as the piece demands a kind of humour more sophisticated than robust, he’s ‘going for a Golden Age of Hollywood glamour approach.
