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Next season Boston Lyric Opera will offer Puccini’s “La Bohème,” Philip Glass’s “In the Penal Colony,” Massenet’s “Werther,” and Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow.” All four works will be staged in new ...

You’d be pretty surprised if Boston Lyric Opera announced that its new production of “The Merry Widow” was being conducted by Billy Joel. That’s not happening, but Billy’s half-brother, Alexander Joel ...

Above : Renée Fleming takes center stage in The Met: Live in HD Summer Encores seres presentation of Franz Lehár’s opera “The Merry Widow.” (Photo/Fathom Events) As late as the 19th century, opera was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Three Cleveland cultural institutions are partnering this weekend on a production of a rarely heard opera. The Cleveland Opera, the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, and Cleveland Ballet ...

It has been nine Octobers since we last saw Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” at the Musical Arts Center. We’ll do so once again next weekend, from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon, and this time ...

Lyric Opera probably didn’t need another new production of “The Merry Widow” so soon after its 2009 Gary Griffin staging of the beloved Franz Lehar operetta. Still, with a lavish, relatively new ...

Operetta is a type of opera where the audience is invited to a lovely mixture of romantic sentiments, comedy and parodies of serious operas. Abundant in exquisite music and a good dosage of dialogue, ...

Things are fiscally tight in Pontevedro, the fictional Balkan principality, unless its ambassador to France can persuade the widow Hanna Glawari to keep her fortune in the country and save it from ...

Back in the day when holidays abroad meant taking the ferry, our little family fixed a fortnight in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast. I've a couple of memories of that summer in short trousers ...