Organization

Seefestspiele Mörbisch

Singer

Baritone

Harald Serafin

Baron Mirko Zeta

Alfred Sramek

Soprano

Margarita De Arellano

Hannah Glawari

Ursula Pfitzner

Dagmar Schellenberger

Markus Werba

Count Danilo Danilowitsch

Mathias Hausmann

Elisabeth Starzinger

Valencienne

Tenor

Marwan Shamiyeh

Camille of Rosillon

Daniel Serafin

Viscount Cascada

Alexander Klinger

Ralph of Saint-Brioche

Peter Branoff

Kromow

Mezzo-soprano

Johanna Hohloch

Olga

Bernd Ander

Bogdanovitch

Doris Nitsch

Sylviane

Peter Lindner

Pritschitsch

Mirjana Irosch

Praskowia

Spoken

Ernst Konarek

Njegus

Conductor

Rudolf Bibl

Stage director

Helmuth Lohner

Costume designer

Rolf Langenfass

Set designer

Die lustige Witwe -  (The Merry Widow)

Mörbisch

Austria

Seebühne Mörbisch

"The Merry Widow" was first performed in Vienna in 1905, and Helmuth Lohner staged it in Mörbisch to mark the 100th STAGE ANNIVERSARY. It is the most performed stage work of this genre. A wealth of melodic ideas was cleverly instrumented in this stage work: "I'm going to the Maxim", the "Viljalied", "Yes, the study of women is difficult" and "Lips are silent".
The Mörbischer "Widow" is conducted by Rudolf Bibl, the choreography comes from Giorgio Madia. Traditionally, Rolf Langenfass is responsible for the stage design and costumes. Harald Serafin (Baron Mirko Zeta), Margarita de Arello (Hanna Glawari) and Mathias Hausmann (Graf Danilo Danilowitsch) play the leading roles. "The Merry Widow", premiered in 1905 at the Theater an der Wien, is probably one of Franz Lehar's most successful operettas. The story of the extremely wealthy Hanna Glawari not only inspired Europe, America also succumbed to the "Merry Widow" fever through the abundance of musical ideas, the Parisian piquancy with Balkan influences and the colorful bouquet of waltzes, polka, colo, polonaise and mazurka. And last but not least, the melodies "I'm going to Maxim"

Die lustige Witwe Lehár

The Merry Widow

Approved

English

The Merry Widow by Lehár, From (2005/2005), Directed by Helmuth Lohner,, Conductor Rudolf Bibl, Seebühne Mörbisch, Mörbisch, Austria

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