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 ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...

But The Merry Widow in the rarified aura of Glyndebourne? The company did tackle this famous 1905 operetta for a few concert performances when their theatre was shut (narrated by Dirk Bogarde, no less ...

Shifting the setting forward to the interwar period, director Graeme Murphy reframes the action in a period of radical cultural expression, progressive social and political agendas, and extreme ...

After the first act of Giles Havergal’s new production of The Merry Widow, the impression is of a handsome staging (Leslie Travers’ costumes and sets) full of poised and precise performances by a cast ...

Broadway came uptown on New Year’s Eve, showering the Metropolitan Opera House with showbiz glitz at the premiere of Susan Stroman’s new production of “The Merry Widow.” The opera world offered its ...

The sets and costumes were designed by Andrew Horn, who is in his second year as principal stage designer for LOOK. The concept Horn and Gibson devised for "The Merry Widow" drew inspiration from ...

After making something of a departure over the summer with a production of The Drowsy Chaperone and some evenings of Drag Queen Bingo, the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre returns to more traditional fare ...