David Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he’s dead set on making music for himself—for the sake of the music, and nothing else.

THE BASICS: THE MERRY WIDOW, a 1905 Viennese light opera/operetta, by Franz Lehár, directed by Lissa Berglund, sung in English, with a fine 8-person pit directed by Ted Smeltz, starring Holly ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Joe Cain’s Merry Widows are ready to put their claws up and fight over who exactly was his favorite. Cain’s Merry Widows, a women’s mystic society, celebrates Mardi ...

After serving as director and choreographer for the world premiere of “It’s a Wonderful Life” in 2017 with the Jacobs School of Music, Stickann returned to work on “The Merry Widow,” once again ...

At Knoxville Opera it is their mission to spread love for opera and they do this by making performances approachable. Their latest ‘The Merry Widow’ is in English and is an “opere… ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "The Merry Widow" will be the final production in Palm Beach Opera’s current 60th anniversary season.

Joe Cain’s Merry Widows are 50 years old in 2024. Wearing black from their heads, to their toes, the comically crying merry widows traipse through the graveyard for another year.

Must all performances of The Merry Widow, Franz Lehár’s lighthearted operetta of 1905, be set in Paris? With Palm Beach now an international cultural center in its own right, the question occurred ...

THE Merry Widow is a fun opera, well operetta, as it has lots of spoken dialogue and could even be called a play with music. Either way it's an entertaining and enjoyable piece.

Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár’s 1905 comic operetta “Die Lustige Witwe/The Merry Widow” gets a Minnesota twist in a new adaptation presented by Opera on the Lake. Original spoken ...

While The Merry Widow has a reputation as a showpiece for mature ballerinas — Carla Fracci "admitted to 60" when she danced it, Hynd says, and Margot Fonteyn was older than 40 — he created the ...