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The Merry Widow
(Die lustige Witwe)

Music by Franz Lehár
Librettists: Victor Léon & Leo Stein
First Performance: December 30, 1905
Theater an der Wien, Vienna


The Articles
Early Twentieth Century Europe
Operetta
The Waltz
Maxim's
Teachers' Resources

The Cast
(in order of vocal appearance)
Vicomte Cascada
Baron Mirko Zeta, Marsovian Ambassador in Paris
Njegus, Factotum at the Embassy
Kromov, Marsovian Consul
Olga, His wife
Valencienne, Baron Zeta's wife
Camille de Rosillon, a Frenchman
Pritschitsch, Marsovian Consul
Raoul de St. Brioche, a Frenchman
Praskovia, Wife of Pritschitsch
Hanna Glavari, the Widow
Count Danilo Danilovitch, Attaché at the Embassy
Bogdanovitch, Marsovian Consul
Sylvane, His Wife
Grisettes: Lolo, Dodo, Jou-Jou, Frou-Frou, Clo-Clo, Margot
Members of Parisian sociey, servants, musicians

Revised September 2006
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