Vancouver Opera – The Merry Widow
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- Queen Elizabeth Theatre - 630 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5N6, Vancouver, BC View Map
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- https://www.vancouveropera.ca/merry-widow/
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By Franz Lehár
THE MERRY WIDOW
Get ready to indulge in the Viennese torte known as Franz Lehár’sThe Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) in this wonderfully lavish Art Nouveau production directed by Canadian Kelly Robinson (last at Vancouver Opera as director of the hit production of Evita). Set in the heart of vibrant fin de siècle Paris, the wealthy widow, Hanna Glawari, sung by Italian-Canadian Lucia Cesaroni, schemes to win the heart of dashingly handsome Count Danilo, interpreted here by tenor John Cudia, recently at VO as Cassio in Verdi’s Otello. The story unfolds on a stage packed with elegant ladies, eligible bachelors, and Maxim’s famous can-can dancers. Franz Lehár’s charming score, last performed at VO in 1990, is filled with lush waltzes and ballads. Susan Memmott-Allred’s costumes and Michael Yeargan’s sets evoke the Belle Epoque period with winning style. Rising star conductor Ward Stare will direct the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.
Sung in German with English dialogue and English SURTITLES™
October 20, 25, & 27 at 7:30pm
October 28 at 2:00pm
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
About the Vancouver Opera 2018-19 season:
Vancouver Opera’s 2018—2019 season will open with a wonderfully lavish Art Nouveau operetta, Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow, followed by a gloriously extravagant production of one of opera’s most enduring love stories, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème. In the spring, VO will kick off the 2019 Vancouver Opera Festival Fairytales & Fables with a devilishly exciting production of Charles Gounod’s Faust, and an enduring rags-to-riches story that never goes out of style in Gioachino Rossini’s La Cenerentola.
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