Lehar

The meteorological department has classed Cyclone Lehar as "severe" and said it would hit mainly hit the coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states.

The final DVD under consideration here, Zigrunerliebe (filmed in 1974), gives us only a small portion of Franz Lehar's extravagantly exotic score.

During their duet on Franz Lehar's "Lippen Schweigen" ("Silent Lips"), Tola's superb soprano voice and Domingo's tenor (which in recent years has explored the lower registers as he's begun experimenting with baritone roles) animated a scene upon the subject of love, or more likely lost love.

I've never fully accepted this argument, or warmed to Offenbach's music, which lacks the bittersweet combination of charm and melancholy that characterizes the best music of Lehar and Kalman.

He saved Sophie Lehar, the wife of composer Franz Lehar.

Apart from The Merry Widow you don't hear much of the music of Franz Lehar (1870-1948) anymore, I suppose his brand of slightly schmaltzy romanticism has long since become pass6.

Come see The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar delight audiences with romantic intrigues, intricate misunderstandings, and of course, a happy ending.

London City Opera's production of Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow" at Van Wezel in Sarasota

But the kickoff is a gala of Ronald Hynd's scintillating choreography of The Merry Widow, based on Franz Lehar's champagne operetta, October 3-November 4 (Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto; 416/345-9595).

The show features highlights from some of the great operettas of the Strauss family as well as Kalman and Lehar - including Die Fledermaus,The MerryWidow and many more.

Indeed, a huge part of the performance success of Franz Lehar's witty, melodious confection rides on the singer in the role of the titular widow from the little-known European country of Pontevedro.

With both artists making their debut at Bangor's new arts and innovation centre, and the orchestra returning after a very popular concert at the beginning of the year, audiences can expect an evening of operatic highlights with music by Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Lehar, including excerpts from Tosca, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and The Merry Widow.