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    The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe [diː ˈlʊstɪɡə ˈvɪtvə]) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor...
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    of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe). Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary...
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  • Frauen (Women from Vienna) Der Rastelbinder Göttergatte Juxheirat Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (1905) Der Mann mit drei Frauen (The man with three...
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    of his works includes Wiener Blut (1899), Die lustige Witwe (1905), Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909) and Die Csárdásfürstin (1915). Stein is buried at the...
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    the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe). Hirschfeld began a career as a journalist, and then branched out...
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  • Television Bezauberndes Fräulein (1963) – (based on Bezauberndes Fräulein) Die lustige Witwe (1963) – (based on The Merry Widow) Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1964)...
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    Flucht vor Blond (1928) Revolt in the Batchelor's House (1929) - Die lustige Witwe The Convict from Istanbul (1929) - Jola Zezi Once I Loved a Girl in...
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  • Fiametta in Boccaccio, Gabriele in Wiener Blut, Hanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witwe, and Laura in Der Bettelstudent among others. Réthy retired from the...
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    (Ackermann) (1953) and excerpts from Lehár Operettas Naxos 8.111016-17 Die lustige Witwe (Kunz, Gedda) (1953) Naxos 8.111007 Mozart Don Giovanni (Carlo Maria...
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  • Baron de Gondremark (La Vie parisienne). In 1934 he appeared as Popoff in the Meilhac version of Die lustige Witwe “La Veuve Joyeuse” at the Théâtre de la...
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    Romina Power, Robert Hoffmann, Michèle Mercier 1931: Franz Lehár: Die lustige Witwe 1936: Ralph Benatzky: Axel an der Himmelstür (as Gloria Mills) 1958:...
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  • Donizetti, 1834 Luisa Miller, Verdi, 1849 Lulu, Berg, 1937 Die lustige Witwe, Lehár, 1905 Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Nicolai, 1849 Macbeth, Verdi...
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  • Count Danilo Una Merkel as Kitty Riley. Merkel played Queen Dolores in the 1934 film version. Richard Haydn as Baron Popoff Thomas Gomez as the King of Marshovia...
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  • 1904 Vienna, Carltheater Die Juxheirat Operetta 3 acts Julius Bauer 21 December 1904 Vienna, Theater an der Wien Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow Operetta...
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  • as Marie in Zeller's Der Vogelhändler, in the title role of Lehárs Die lustige Witwe, and as Lisa in his Das Land des Lächelns. In April 1994, she appeared...
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    Gedda was contracted for three HMV opera recordings – Boris Godunov, Die Lustige Witwe and Das Land des Lächelns – as well as the B minor mass by Bach and...
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    heavily influenced by the operettas that he had grown up with (he saw Die lustige Witwe 27 times), but had a highly individual style of their own. Blending...
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    His signature role was Count Danilo Danilovich in Franz Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow). His version of Count Danilo's entrance song, "Da...
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  • now-popular opera was a disaster involving accusations of plagiarism. 1905 Die lustige Witwe (Franz Lehár). One of the most famous Viennese operettas. 1905 Salome...
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    style: Wiener Frauen (Viennese Women, 1902), Der Rastelbinder (1902), Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow, 1905). Franz von Suppé, of Croatian origin, was...
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  • operettas such as The Mikado, Wie einst im Mai [de], Madame Pompadour and Die lustige Witwe and turned them into modern jazzy revue operettas, claiming that he...
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    Flotow's Wintermärchen, George's Försterchristl, Jones' Geisha, Lehár's Lustige Witwe, Lortzing's Waffenschmied, Offenbach's Belle Hélène, and J. Strauss...
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    Say Goodbye", "La traviata: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Brindisi)", "Die Lustige Witwe – Lippen Schweigen", "The Phantom Of The Opera: All I Ask Of You"...
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  • Steiner paid tribute to Lehár through an operetta modeled after Lehár's Die lustige Witwe which Steiner staged in 1907 in Vienna.: 3  Eysler was well known...
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    (act 2); "Czardás" Die Fledermaus and "Habet acht" (Gypsy Song) Der Zigeunerbaron. The eight numbers were: Lehár Die lustige Witwe: "Vilja-Lied"; Lehár...
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    Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche – Friedrich Kiel, Christus", Die Zeit, Band 7 (1896), pp. 26ff. "Zur Mozartfeier", Die Zeit, Band 7 (1896), p...
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    original. Trierer biographisches Lexikon (in German). Koblenz. 2000. p. 246. Die Welt der Rosen web page on Rosenzüchter Peter Lambert (in German). Charles...
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  • Luxemburg, The Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns), The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe), Paganini, Der Zarewitsch Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1751–1796) Électre...
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