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Хельмут Лонер (режиссёр-постановщик), Франц Вельзер-Мёст (музыкальный руководитель) – Цюрихский оперный театр
Состав
Хельмут Лонер
Рольф Лангенфасс
Робертус Кремер
Джорджио Мадиа
Дагмар Шелленбергер
Родни Джилфри
Уте Гфререр
Рудольф А. Хартманн
Герберт Прикопа
Хор Цюрихского оперного театра
Эрнст Раффелсбергер
Оркестр Цюрихского оперного театра
О программе
The Merry Widow is a pitch-perfect example of everything we love about operetta as a genre: lightheartedness, cheekiness, slapstick comedy... all brought to the fore with brio in this remarkable production from Helmut Lohner, starring the stunning Dagmar Schellenberger in the role of Hanna Glawari.
The operetta emerged as a counterpoint to the French Grand Opera tradition, a heavily-coded genre that leaned heavily into serious, somber plots and bombastic style. With an almost anti-intellectual stance and astonishing irreverance, operetta poked fun at these solidly-established academic codes, leading Saint-Saëns to once quip that "the operetta is an opéra-comique's daughter gone bad—but those kinds of girls have their own kind of charm." And it seems that turn-of-the-century audiences were indeed charmed: The Merry Widow was performed more than 20,000 time in the four years following its 1905 Viennese premiere.