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’.
In the Temesvar Province, a landowner returned from exile marries a gypsy girl who is revealed to be the daughter of a Turkish Pasha and the rightful owner of a hidden treasure.
On the centenary of the opening of the operetta Iolanthe, Gilbert & Sullivan return to the Royal Albert Hall London to attend a performance of their most popular works.
Witty, fun, intoxicating film of Johann Strauss II's popular operetta, based on a stage production from Vienna State Opera; this is a showcase for the entire cast, but most especially Eberhard Wächter as the insufferably boorish Gabriel Eisenstein, and Gundula Janowitz as his long-suffering wife.
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert.
Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman.
Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest and Vienna before the outbreak of the First World War, recorded at the Budapest Opera in 1963.
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from The Merry Widow:
Весёлая вдова / The Merry Widow (2001)_trailer
Вдова с миллионным состоянием молодая и красивая и от поклонников нет отбоя - отчего же не веселиться?...
The Met Summer Encores: The Merry Widow and Aida Trailer
The Met Summer Encores continue to heat up with a presentation of Lehár's The Merry Widow on Wednesday July 22 and Verdi's Aida on Wednesday July 29.
The Merry Widow - Opera Bohemia
A sneak peek at Bohemia rehearsals for our 10th anniversary tour of The Merry Widow. The show visits 18 venues round Scotland during August & September ...
Lehár: The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) / Act 2 - "Ha! Ha! Wir fragen ... Den Herrschaften...
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Lehár: The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) / Act 2 - "Ha! Ha! Wir fragen ... Den Herrschaften hab ich was zu ...
Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) at UAO [HQ/HD]
Production highlights of Union Avenue Opera's performance of Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) performed in St. Louis Missouri on July 31 August 1 7 8 ...
The Merry Widow: Act III "Ja wir sind es die Grisetten"
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises The Merry Widow: Act III "Ja wir sind es die Grisetten" · Franz Lehár · Otto Ackermann · Anton Niessner ...
Popular movie trailers from 2001
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2001:
Raw Spice is a fly-on-the-wall documentary like no other. It charts the formation of a girl band in 1994, a group who would go on to be the biggest selling girl band in history, five girls who became.
A documentary about the making of 1976's "Obsession" featuring interviews with director Brian De Palma, stars Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold and more.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
This documentary begins with the story of the prelude to World War II, and goes on to analyze such events as the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, rise of the dictators, the spread of fascism in Italy, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War, the Munich Agreement, Hitler's March into Czechoslovakia, the Blitzkrieg and invasion of Poland, the fall of Norway, and more.
