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Ever-popular masterpiece of light opera in the first affordable, complete score for piano and voice, reprinted directly from the first English translation (1907) published by Chappell & Co., London. List of numbers.
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A Classic Musical from Old Vienna
The Merry Widow was an important model for the innovators of a burgeoning new style of Lyric drama, the American Musical. It had everything they wanted: lovely, hummable tunes, silly, broad, robust characters, romanticintrigue, even a happy ending. The Merry Widow was, in fact, an essentialprototype of the American Musical. Dover Publications reprinted the OliverDitson edition from the early 20th century. It's a fine edition with areliable piano reduction; not over-simplified, like some Americanturn-of-the-century piano reductions, but simple enough to reflect Lehar'sorchestration accurately. It's easy to read, and, as always, darn nearindestructable. The only problem with this Dover/Ditson reprint is that, inplace of the original German text, it offers a Victorian English textrather too quaint for modern production. This isn't a major problemhowever. It shouldn't be too much trouble simply to scribble in a skillfulmodern translation, say Sheldon Harnick's, provided, of course, you havehis permission. ... Read more

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This sheet music was newly engraved from early and authoritative editions. ... Read more

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Sheet music for piano. 5 pages. ... Read more

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This second volume of Viennese Opera Libretti includes IPA transcriptions, word for word translations and a guide to the German IPA. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Das Land Des Lächelns, Die Lustige Witwe, Der Zarewitsch, La Veuve Joyeuse. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait :Affiche d'une représentation française du Pays du sourireDas Land des Lächelns (Le Pays du sourire) est une opérette romantique en trois actes de Franz Lehár. Le livret en allemand est de Ludwig Herzer et Fritz Löhner. La durée de sa représentation est d'environ 100 minutes. Il s'agit de l'une des dernières œuvres de Lehár ; son dénouement de tonalité douce-amère rencontra un grand succès auprès du public viennois. Le titre est une allusion à la coutume chinoise de sourire quelles que soient les vicissitudes de la vie. Le personnage principal, le prince Sou-Chong interprète, au début du spectacle, un air intitulé » (Toujours sourire) décrivant cette particularité. L'action se déroule à Vienne et dans la Chine de 1912. Au premier acte, à Vienne, l'héroïne la comtesse Lisa épouse le prince chinois Sou-Chong, puis l'accompagne pour vivre avec lui dans son pays, malgré les mises en garde de ses amis et de sa famille. À l'acte II, à Pékin, elle se rend compte qu'elle est incapable de s'accommoder de la culture de son mari et surtout de sa polygamie. Bien que son mari s'efforce de la rassurer en lui déclarant qu'il s'agit d'une simple formalité, le malheur est inévitable et Lisa vit enfermée dans le palais. Son amour se change en haine. À l'acte III, Lisa regagne l'Autriche et Sou-Chong se retrouve seul. Sa sœur, la princesse Mi s'était de son côté attachée au diplomate viennois Gustav et le dénouement est ainsi doublement triste. Néanmoins, le prince respecte les usages : toujours sourire. Richard Tauber, à l'affiche du Tauberlied du Pays du sourireServi à sa création par une riche mise en s...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: The Merry Widow, List of Operas and Operettas by Lehár, the Land of Smiles, Der Zarewitsch, Giuditta, Der Graf Von Luxemburg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Merry Widow (1905)Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909)Der Zarewitsch (1927)The Land of Smiles (1929)Giuditta (1934) The Merry Widow (German: ) is an operetta by the AustroHungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac. The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna and continues to be frequently revived. Well-known music from the score includes the "Vilja Song", "Da geh' ich zu Maxim" ("You'll Find Me at Maxim's"), and the "Merry Widow Waltz". The operetta was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 30 December 1905 with Mizzi Günther as Hanna, Louis Treumann as Danilo, Siegmund Natzler as Baron Zeta and Annie Wünsch as Valencienne. It was Lehár's first major success, becoming internationally the best-known operetta of its era. Lehár subsequently made changes for productions in London in 1907 (two new numbers), and Berlin in the 1920s, but the definitive version is basically that of the original production. The operetta toured Austria and in 1906 enjoyed productions in Hamburg's Neues Operetten-Theater, Berlin's Berliner Theater (starring Gustav Matzner as Danilo and Marie Ottmann as Hanna, who made the first complete recording in 1907), and Budapest's Magyar Szinhaz. Its English adaptation by Basil Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, became a sensation in London in 1907 ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=560587 ... Read more