Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow") (Franz Lehár) – Upcoming Concerts

Program includes works by Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Franz Lehár, and Richard Strauss.

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")

Franz Lehár — Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow") (selections)
Victor Herbert — Selected works
Sigmund Romberg — Selected works
George Gershwin — Selected works
Frank Loesser — Selected works
Leonard Bernstein — Selected works
Stephen Sondheim — A Little Night Music (selections)

Vashon Opera presents Franz Lehár’s effervescent operetta, The Merry Widow. Come be enthralled & amused through mazurkas & can-can dancing as the Merry Widow waltzes her way to love.

Vashon Opera presents Franz Lehár’s effervescent operetta, The Merry Widow. Come be enthralled & amused through mazurkas & can-can dancing as the Merry Widow waltzes her way to love.

Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, & Sir Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by Susan Stroman. From January 17, 2015.

Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, and Sir Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. From January 17, 2015.

Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, and Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. From January 17, 2015.

Giuseppe Verdi – “Va, pensiero” from Nabucco
The Maiden Selling Flowers
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto (3rd mvt.)
Franz Lehár – “Lippen schweigen” from Die lustige Witwe
Various – Korean Gagok
Claude Debussy – L’isle Joyeuse
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Opera music for piano and soprano by Lehár and Romberg.

Lehar – Overture to The Merry Widow
Bruch – Concerto for Violin in G minor
Hanson – Symphony No. 2, "Romantic"

Thomas Harper directs students from the UW School of Music voice program in scenes from Macbeth, Suor Angelica, and The Merry Widow.

Rathbun – Suite for Oboe and English Horn
Sieczynski – Wien, du Stadt Meiner Träume
Lehar – Meine Lippen sie Küssenso heiss (Guiditta)
Lehar – Vilia (Merry Widow)
J. Strauss – Was ist an einem kuss gelegen (Der Lustige Krieg)
Raymond – Die Juliska aus Budapest (Maske in Blau)
O. Strauss – My Hero (Chocolate Soldier)
Two Irish Folk Songs
Telemann – Canonic Sonata in D major for two oboes
Flemming – Three Duets for Two Oboes from Sixty Progressive Etudes for the Hautboy