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The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár

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André Rieu from the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. Music to melt the heart. The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband—on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac. The operetta was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 30 December 1905 ...

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  • my name is Nicolás

    Dear Sirs,
    My name is Nicolás Palliota, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am interested in obtaining videos and music related to Franz Lehár, there is an opereta called ‘’the Merry widow´´ performed on 1934, I know that there are two versions of this play and I am interested in obtaining the one dated 1934.
    If anyone can share with me some of these materials I will be very grateful.
    Thanks in advance for your assistance.

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