...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
The Merry Widow (Theatre)
- 13 statements
- 1 feature instances
- 18 referencing feature instances
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | type |
TVTItem | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | label |
The Merry Widow (Theatre) | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | page |
TheMerryWidow | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | comment |
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta with music by Franz Lehár, first performed in Vienna in 1905.The setting is Paris. Hanna Glawari, a young widow from the small Balkan state of Pontevedro, is being courted by many men for her beauty and the 20 million francs she inherited from her late husband. The Pontevedrian Ambassador, Baron Zeta, would prefer her to marry another Pontevedrian, because the depature of the 20 million francs would be disastrous to the tiny Pontevedrian economy. His chosen candidate is Count Danilo Danilovitsch, but there's a catch: Danilo and Hanna had a romance when they were young, which was broken off because Danilo's family disapproved of her then-poverty, and now Hanna refuses to marry Danilo until she's sure he's not just interested in her money, while Danilo refuses to marry Hanna at all (because he fears that, whatever happens, it will be generally assumed that he is just interested in her money).In a subplot, a French nobleman attempts to seduce Baron Zeta's wife, with complications that get entangled with the main plot but eventually help provide part of a solution to Hanna's dilemma.The costumes for the first London production, in 1907, created a fashion trend, the "Merry Widow hat", whose wide brimmed hats lasted until the wake of World War I. The operetta inspired several films including an extremely loose 1925 romantic drama directed by Erich von Stroheim and a still quite loose 1934 musical comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The Metropolitan Opera in New York premiered a new production of this for New Years' Eve in the 2014-15 season. A recording of this can be seen on the Met OnDemand streaming service.This work provides examples of: | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | fetched |
2024-03-01T12:31:23Z | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | parsed |
2024-03-01T12:31:23Z | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) / int_name | comment |
||
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Merry Widow (Theatre) / int_name | |
| The Merry Widow (Theatre) / int_name | itemName |
The Merry Widow (Theatre) |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.