(The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow)

Content: Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fortune in their home country of Pontevedro. Kelli O’Hara sings Valencienne, the flirtatious young wife of the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, Baron Zeta, played by Thomas Allen, and Alek Shrader is her suitor, Camille. Andrew Davis conducts the waltz-rich score, and the new English translation is by Jeremy Sams.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Music

Runtime:

148 minutes

Year:

2015

Directors:

Susan Stroman

Production companies:

Decca,

The Metropolitan Opera

Actors:

Baron Mirko Zeta

Valencienne

Graf Danilo Danilowitsch:

Hanna Glawari

Camille de Rosillon

Crews:

Conductor

Original Music Composer

Original Story

Writer

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