The Merry Widow

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2001 / 120min.

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Genres

Music

Synopsis

Lotfi Mansouri's spectacular last production as General Director of The San Francisco Opera with Yvonne Kenny making her debut in the title role, new dialogue specially commissioned from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Wendy Wasserstein and an original ballet to set the scene ‘Chez Maxime’ bringing fresh insight into Lehár's classic operetta. This production also features another world premiere, Njegus's song, ‘Quite Parisian’.

Directors

Actors

Angelika Kirchschlager

Bo Skovhus

Yvonne Kenny

Gregory Turay

Erich Kunzel

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