NEW YORK — I envy my New York Times colleague Michael Cooper, who recently got to see the Metropolitan Opera stars Susan Graham and Paul Groves off duty, belting Queen and Journey at a karaoke bar on ...

"The Merry Widow" represents a transitional moment in opera. The operetta (a lighter, shorter opera) was a huge success when it debuted in Vienna in 1905, and it built onto that success through an ...

This is FRESH AIR. The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow," one of the most beloved operettas ever written, in a new production staring soprano ...

She's appeared on grand opera stages (New York's Metropolitan Opera recently staged a version starring Frederica von Stade and Placido Domingo) and in high school auditoriums, in films both silent (an ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...

Susan Graham sings the title role of the fabulous woman of the world who sets out to conquer glamorous old Paris and get the one thing that has eluded her—a commitment from her playboy first love.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The idea that “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan” is turned on its ...