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24. Juni 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 ...
12. Juni 2024 · Sugar, swirls of silk and saucers of champagne abound in the decadent excess of Glyndebourne’s new production of Lehár’s biggest hit, The Merry Widow. Polite society be damned, there’s more sexual energy on stage than in a dubious television hook-up show – and the gags are better too.
- Dominic Lowe
10. Juni 2024 · He really does “get it”: Lehár’s score, played by the London Philharmonic, floats up silky, seductive and sophisticated, the textures transparent and the tempi spot-on, crowned by the ear-worm waltz. And yes, it is “light”.
10. Juni 2024 · At Glyndebourne, the problem is that director Cal McCrystal has stuffed Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow with so much extra dialogue that it often reduces the music to secondary importance.
24. Juni 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 ...
11. Juni 2024 · The show is launched by Tom Edden turning Njegus into a camp but entertaining stand-up comic and he also gets to sing his aria, added by Lehár for London in 1907. Best of the rest is the ...
10. Juni 2024 · Review at a glance. Given the straight line that can be drawn between 19th-century operetta and the Hollywood musical, it might seem an obvious choice to use the latter as a lens through which to...
