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Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2017-2018 season and captured live in HD on...
Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2017-2018 season and captured live in HD on the New York stage.
"Lehár’s best-known composition has been an audience favorite since its 1905 premiere and features a great deal of well-known music, including “Vilja,” “You’ll Find Me At Maxim’s,” and “The Merry Widow Waltz.” Renée Fleming will add a new character to her wide-ranging Met repertory of 22 roles as Hanna, the widowed Parisian millionairess. Andrew Davis will conduct a cast that also includes Nathan Gunn as Hanna’s lover Danilo; Alek Shrader as the young nobleman Camille de Rosillon; Thomas Allen as the scheming Baron Zeta; and Broadway soprano Kelli O’Hara in her Met debut as the Baron’s coquettish wife Valencienne." (Metropolitan Opera)
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"The result isn’t inedible, but the flavours don’t mingle and melt as they can when a master chef is in charge."
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"The production came across as tentative, as if Ms. Stroman were struggling to find a balance between respecting the idiom of the work and charging it with fresh theatricality."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Fleming Makes a Sour ‘Merry Widow’ at the Met."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Susan Stroman’s production ramps up the cutesiness to offset the venue’s lack of intimacy."
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Financial Times
Financial Times
