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A delightfully entertaining and amusing production of Lehár's classic operetta The Merry Widow 

Lyric Opera Production delivers a conventional Tosca to close the opera season. 

Few 19th-century operettas exceed HMS Pinafore in style, wit and musical accomplishment; the principal candidates in English are The Mikado, and The Yeoman of the Guard, plus a few offerings by Lionel Monckton and Sidney Jones. Any foreign contender would surely be one of the champagne-soaked Viennese delicacies by the Strauss family or Carl Zeller.