Franz Lehar's bright, carefree music will probably always have a home on New Year's Day programs, such as the Vienna Philharmonic's famous annual concert. The Slovak Radio Symphony didn't need the new ...

Franz Lehár has written 13 shows including The Count of Luxembourg (Composer), The Merry Widow (Composer), The Merry Widow Burlesque (Composer), Gypsy Love (Composer), The Count of Luxembourg ...

“Americans,” Franz Lehar once complained, “know me only as the creator of The Merry Widow” But how well they knew The Merry Widow! In 1907, the Widow’s gay Viennese charm had captured Broadway. Merry ...

The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film. This is ...

Back in the day when holidays abroad meant taking the ferry, our little family fixed a fortnight in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast. I've a couple of memories of that summer in short trousers ...

The little old man in a pink Tyrolean shirt played the piano with trembling hands. When the two Allied war correspondents swayed to his lilting Merry Widow Waltz, tears came to the old man’s eyes.

Not all that glitters is gold, but a waltz commissioned by royalty for a fancy ball certainly is. The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, led by Armin Jordan, plays Franz Lehar's Silver and Gold Waltz.

Opera Hong Kong is set to bring a treat to the city’s classical music scene this summer with two performances of Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár’s beloved operetta, The Merry Widow, at City Hall ...

Other than the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, UK audiences get to see professional productions of a mere handful of standard operettas by composers such as Offenbach, Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár ...

Fritz Loener-Beda, popular Viennese writer and librettist-collaborator of the composer Franz Lehar, has committed suicide in the Buchenwald concentration camp, it was reliably learned here today. The ...

The latest news and top stories on Franz Lehár. Known as a prominent Austro-Hungarian composer, he is celebrated for his operettas, most notably 'The Merry Widow', which achieved worldwide success and ...