Philharmonia Orchestra: The Merry Widow

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, Londres, Greater London, SE1 8XX, Royaume-uni

Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de London

Programme

Lehár, Franz (1870-1948)

Die Lustige Witwe (La Veuve joyeuse) (sung in English with surtitles)

Artistes

Philharmonia Orchestra
John Wilson	Direction
Philharmonia Voices
Simon Butteriss	Mise en scène
Claudia Boyle	Soprano	Hanna Glawari (ou Missia Palmieri)
Daniel Prohaska	Ténor	Comte Danilo Danilovitch (ou Prince Danilo)
Nicholas Sharratt	Ténor	Camille de Rosillon (ou Camille de Coutançon)
Simon Butteriss	Baryton	Baron Mirko Zeta (ou Baron Popoff dans l'adaptation française)

John Wilson conducts Lehár's unforgettable Merry Widow.

It has been said with some justification that the Silver Age of operetta began on 30 December 1905 with the Viennese premiere of Lehár's The Merry Widow.

This non-stop riot of orchestral colour, irrepressible joi-de-vivre and inspired sequences of unforgettable waltz tunes suited the mood of the times to perfection, from the champagne-cork popping of Habsburg Vienna, to the insatiable bonhomie of pre-Great War Paris and the Edwardian era's obsession with dance music in London.

It swiftly became an international sensation, making the struggling Lehár into a feted celebrity and a multi-millionaire into the bargain!

Plan

The Merry Widow at the Royal Festival Hall

Francesca Geach, 11th December

Franz Lehár’s favourite haunt was Vienna’s Café Sperl, and with the famous Theater an der Wien around the corner, Café Sperl became the meeting place for the operetta crowd around the turn of the 20th century. The Theater an der Wien was the site of the world première of Lehár’s tenth stage work, The Merry Widow, which met its enthusiastic public on 30 December 1905.

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