“Americans,” Franz Lehar once complained, “know me only as the creator of The Merry Widow” But how well they knew The Merry Widow! In 1907, the Widow’s gay Viennese charm had captured Broadway. Merry ...

Franz Lehar's bright, carefree music will probably always have a home on New Year's Day programs, such as the Vienna Philharmonic's famous annual concert. The Slovak Radio Symphony didn't need the new ...

Franz Lehár has written 13 shows including The Count of Luxembourg (Composer), The Merry Widow (Composer), The Merry Widow Burlesque (Composer), Gypsy Love (Composer), The Count of Luxembourg ...

The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film. This is ...

Not all that glitters is gold, but a waltz commissioned by royalty for a fancy ball certainly is. The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, led by Armin Jordan, plays Franz Lehar's Silver and Gold Waltz.

Fritz Loener-Beda, popular Viennese writer and librettist-collaborator of the composer Franz Lehar, has committed suicide in the Buchenwald concentration camp, it was reliably learned here today. The ...

The latest news and top stories on Franz Lehár. Known as a prominent Austro-Hungarian composer, he is celebrated for his operettas, most notably 'The Merry Widow', which achieved worldwide success and ...