"Who composed the opera ""The Merry Widow""?"
The Merry Widow Among the filmed productions on DVD, the Penguin Guide recommends the one from the San Francisco Opera, recorded live in 2001, conducted by Erich Kunzel and directed by Lotfi Mansouri, with Yvonne Kenny as Hanna and Bo Skovhus as Danilo. With the permission of the Franz Lehár Estate, Sir Robert Helpmann adapted the operetta's plot scenario, while John Lanchbery and Alan Abbot adapted the operetta's music and composed additional music, for a three-act ballet. "The Merry Widow" ballet was first performed on 13 November 1975 by The Australian Ballet. Various films have been made that are based loosely on the
The Merry Widow discography Music", but Alan Blyth in his "Opera on CD" regrets the casting of a baritone as Danilo in both sets and prefers the 1958 Decca version. Among the filmed productions on DVD, the Penguin Guide recommends the one from the San Francisco Opera, recorded live in 2001, conducted by Erich Kunzel and directed by Lotfi Mansouri, with Yvonne Kenny as Hanna and Bo Skovhus as Danilo. The recordings listed below are sung in German unless otherwise noted. Notes Sources The Merry Widow discography This is a discography of "The Merry Widow" (German: "Die lustige Witwe"), an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian