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Jun 11, 2024 · Glyndebourne’s The Merry Widow is a high-octane comedy — review. Danielle de Niese is bright-eyed and charismatic in Cal McCrystal’s crowd-pleasing production. Danielle de Niese as Hanna...
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Jun 10, 2024 · The in-jokes come thick and fast in Glyndebourne’s first-ever staging of Franz Lehár’s operetta, The Merry Widow. Everything has been thrown at this snazzy, frothy tunefest; direction by comedy king Cal McCrystal, conducting by the multiple award-winning John Wilson, and utterly glorious designs by Gary McCann, who must have ...
Jun 10, 2024 · The Merry Widow, Glyndebourne review: All the makings of a classic. The festival's first-ever staging of this funny operetta is made magical by John Wilson's conducting and Danielle de Niese...
Jun 11, 2024 · The Merry Widow, Glyndebourne review - fun and frolics in the Embassy. Lehár upstaged but still triumphant. by Stephen Walsh Tuesday, 11 June 2024. It's the music, stupid - or perhaps more a comedy with musical attachments © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Tristram Kenton.
Jun 10, 2024 · The nifty footwork of the eponymous widow herself is admirable for a different reason: Danielle de Niese, who brings vocal and physical glamour aplenty to the role, tore a ligament in her knee joint recently, requiring her to rehearse with her leg in a brace.
Jun 10, 2024 · But The Merry Widow in the rarified aura of Glyndebourne? The company did tackle this famous 1905 operetta for a few concert performances when their theatre was shut (narrated by Dirk Bogarde, no less).
Jun 10, 2024 · The Merry Widow is a grown-up and wise work that understands the complex distinctions between love and desire, but McCrystal cramps its range by playing the relationship between the adulterers Camille (Michael McDermott) and Valencienne (Soraya Mafi) for laughs, sending up their duet with sight gags that detract from the beauty of ...
