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The Merry Widow |
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19th-27th April 2002 |
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HAODS are celebrating 80 years of producing musicals and play in Henley. The year 2002 started with Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and now we are proud and privileged to bring you, The Merry Widow, which is without doubt one of the best loved and well known of all operettas. The Merry Widow was first staged in Vienna in 1905 and was an immediate success, taking the whole of Europe by storm within a few years. 1906 saw the first London production |
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It tells the story of political manoeuvrings at the Pontevedrian Embassy. The newly widowed Ann Glavari has been left 20 million by her late husband. This constitutes almost the total assets of the Pontevedrian Bank! If she marries a foreigner the money will leave the bank and the State will be bankrupt. Charged with preventing this catastrophe is the worthy Count Danilo. Danilo and Anna are former lovers but they were forbidden to marry by his aristocratic uncle when she was poor. Now he is too proud to marry her because she is rich! Such a stubborn man! Danilo has never married because he stills loves Anna desperately, spending his time amongst the ladies of Maxim's. There is much conniving by the Baron Zeta and his flirtatious wife Valencienne who strangely proffers her lover Camille as a suitor. Anna is caught in a compromising situation in a summerhouse with Camille, which causes Danilo to be profoundly jealous, much to Anna's delight A charming tale of intrigue and mistaken identity unfolds, however love triumphs in the end and they all live happily ever after. Come along and enjoy an evening of glamour and romance, listen to the enrapturing music of Lehár with such melodies as the Merry Widow Waltz, Vilia, A Highly Respectable Wife, Summer Romanza and see the Grisettes, the luscious ladies of Paris's most famous nightspot, Maxim's. |
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