It is known that if madame glawari marries a foreigner and takes her 50 millions from the pontevedrian bank, the country will be ruined. Baron zeta is desperate that the fabulously wealthy widow hanna glavari marry a pontevedrian man so that her fortune remains in the country. Musical director konstantinos diminakis artistic director bernadette grimmett artistic c0director guido martinbrandis. In the meantime njegus has intervened and hanna glawari steps out of the pavilion to save valencienne. The countrys leaders are here, fairly honestly, represented as members of a petty military junta though the baron is given too much in the way of hitlerian overtones, and hanna glawari, the rich heiress, is portrayed as an american her americanaccented german r s and vowels uncannily rendered by austrian soprano petramaria schnitzer. Elisabeth schwarzkopf hanna glawari, eberhard wachter graf. Viljalied hanna glawari in full in the spotify app. Irgendwann hatte es mal zwischen ihnen mehr oder minder kraftig gefunkt.
The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in vienna and continues to be frequently revived and recorded. Title operette in drei akten composer lehar, franz. Brioche baritone bogdanovitch baritone sylviane soprano. Nur ein einziges mittel kann pontevedro noch vor dem desaster bewahren. I have seen and enjoyed many performances of lehars lustige witwe some wonderful from berlin with a splendid cast gwyneth jones and rene kollo. Zeta is completely confused and danilo, who was standing next to zeta is suddenly jealous that hanna had a rendezvous with another man. Baron zeta is determined that the fortune remain in pontevedra, the impoverished province where they come from. This semperoper dresden production is not bad at all, though it does pale to the 1934 film, the zurich production, the earlier bo skovhus production and even the sutherland performance.
Viljalied hanna glawari by ana maria martinez on amazon music. The score overflows with melodies not just waltzes, but cancans, marches, and mazurkas and the plot is a perfect mix of fun and slightly bittersweet romance. Hanna glawari, recently widowed multimillionairess, and citizen of pontevedro, has suitors vying for her hand from every angle. To save the billions belonging to the young and attractive widow hanna glawari for his country pontevedro, baron zeta initiates a very special. Johann strauss iis fledermaus 1874 tops the table of 18551900 premieres with 11,962 performances, but it had thirty more years than witwe to achieve those numbers. The same cannot be said of many another operetta much younger than that. Hanna glawari, the merry widow of the title, has inherited a vast sum from her late husband.
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