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 ...

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.

There's a charmer of an operetta buried alive under the gaudy plebeian spectacle that Lotfi Mansouri and his cronies have made of Franz Lehar's luscious "Merry Widow," the last and most immodest of ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The little old man in a pink Tyrolean shirt played the piano with trembling hands. When the two Allied war correspondents swayed to his lilting Merry Widow Waltz, tears came to the old man’s eyes.