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Work: Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles)

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ComposerLehár, Franz (1870-1948)
PeriodRomantic
Year1923
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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“Smile despite your sorrows”: Franz Lehár’s valuable lesson in Zurich

In a new production of Franz Lehár’s The Land of Smiles, the stoic Sou-Chong sets the melancholy tone of the operetta by singing “Smile despite your sorrows and a thousand.. aches and pains”.
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