Tickle your funny bone and indulge your ears with Lehár's festive operetta.
Lehár's operetta Die lustige Witwe features timeless hits reimagined in a modern and humorous style by Adam Price, with dazzling staging by Kasper Holten.
Award-winning writer Adam Price and director of the Royal Danish Theatre, Kasper Holten, have crafted a new version of Lehár’s evergreen operetta, Die lustige Witwe, which playfully critiques their beloved theatre world.
The original embassy parties are relocated to a financially starved, modern and easily recognisable Danish cultural scene. True to the original, the air is thick with intrigue and corners are rife with sultry affairs, all set against the backdrop of our confessional era, which is sharply and entertainingly satirised.
Theatre director Zeta seeks a lifeline through sponsorship from the coveted widow Hanna Glawari, who in this version inherits her fortune from a wealthy hog farmer in Jutland. The famous Grisettes will never be the same after Hanna’s grand party in the pigsty.
Naturally, the soundtrack to these tongue-in-cheek antics is Franz Lehár's sweeping music, replete with catchy tunes and complemented by the fiery frenzy of dancers.
Tickle your funny bone and delight your ears as the Royal Danish Orchestra, the Royal Danish Opera Chorus and a star-studded cast of soloists perform such Lehár evergreens as Vilja-Lied, Da geh' ich zu Maxim and Lippen schweigen.
Die lustige Witwe 2.0 is performed in Danish with Danish supertitles for the songs and English supertitles for the dialogue and songs.