#franz lehár

[doyouknowthisopera]

#opera tag #operablr #die lustige witwe #the merry widow #franz lehár #Youtube

[postcard-from-the-past]

Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár on a vintage postcard

#old #postcard #austro #postkaart #lehr #franz #vintage #briefkaart #postal #ansichtskarte #ephemera #composer #photography #photo #postkarte #tarjeta #franz lehár #hungarian #historic #sepia #carte postale

[rayatii]

OKAY, so I recently discovered that there is an operetta by Lehár (whom most of you might recognize as the guy who composed The Merry Widow) called Wo die Lerche singt ("Where the lark sings"), and from what I've seen (I haven't actually seen it, bc the only production I could find online has no subs, I can't find a libretto translated into either of the languages I know better, and my German isn't good enough as of yet; please do link me some sources if you can find them), it looks like a cousin of La rondine ("The swallow"). I first read about this operetta and its parallels to its Italian counterpart in this New York Times article (sorry for those stuck behind the paywall, Tumblr wouldn't let me properly link the VERY long paywall-free URL, so PM me if you want the full article), and I have decided to analyze the similarities between the two:

Both works are based on a libretto written by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. The aforementioned New York Times article seems to go as far as to call Wo die Lerche singt a "remixed La rondine"; altho it was technically based on some play Dorf und Stadt ("village and city") by one Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (but no one knows about it, so let's just skip it for now), one might say it's a sort of revised version of writers' libretto Die Schwalbe (ALSO "the swallow") that La rondine was explicitly based on.

The plots mirror each other in a sort of opposite way: La rondine concerns a Parisian courtesan who falls in love with an innocent country boy but is then driven by her dubious past to leave him and return to the city to her rich benefactor, whereas Wo die Lerche singt is apparently about a Hungarian peasant girl who travels to the city and falls in love with a painter who breaks her heart(?), which prompts her to return to the countryside to her peasant fiancé.

Birdies.

In conclusion, La rondine and Wo die Lerche singt are cousins. Fight me.

#raya reflects #opera #operetta #la rondine #puccini #giacomo puccini #wo die lerche singt #where the lark sings #lehár #franz lehár #lehar #franz lehar

[lesser-known-composers]

Franz Lehár (1870-1948) - Fantasie in A-Flat Major ·

Wolf Harden, piano

#Franz Lehár #classical music #Youtube

[ulrichgebert]

Von allen möglichen Fifis, Froufrous, Loulous und wie sie alle heißen bei Maxim läßt sich Maurice Chevalier von seiner staatstragenden Aufgabe, die Lustige Witwe zu heiraten aufs lubitschig-unmöglichste ablenken. Bring Lots of Champagne!

#The Merry Widow #Maurice Chevalier #Jeanette MacDonald #Edward Everett Horton #Una Merkel #George Barbier #Film gesehen #Ernst Lubitsch #Musical #Franz Lehár

[edgarmoser]

aus "das land des lächelns" von franz lehár

richard tauber - dein ist mein ganzes herz

1929

#Youtube #richard tauber #dein ist mein ganzes herz #franz lehár #das land des lächelns #shellac #odeon

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Franz Lehár

#Franz Lehár #Spotify

[clamarcap]

Oro e argento

Franz Lehár (30 aprile 1870 - 1948): Gold und Silber, valzer op. 79 (1902). Wiener Symphoniker, dir. Robert Stolz. Questo valzer era stato commissionato dalla principessa Pauline von Metternich per una serata di gala tenutasi a Vienna il 27 gennaio 1902.

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#Franz Lehár #Pauline von Metternich #Robert Stolz #Wiener Symphoniker #Youtube

[coffeenewstom]

Café Bazar in Salzburg

Die Geschichte der Salzburger Festspiele ist eng mit der Geschichte des Kaffeehauses Bazar verbunden. War es nicht nur Treffpunkt der Künstler der Stadt, es war auch das Stammcafé von Max Reinhardt, mit dessen Inszenierung des Jedermann auf dem Domplatz 1920 die Salzburger Festspiele ins Leben gerufen wurden – der Autor des Mysterienspieles, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, war übrigens auch Stammgast im…

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#Arthur Miller #Arturo Toscanini #Café Bazar #Franz Lehár #Greta Garbo #Hugo von Hofmannsthal #Iris Berben #Jedermann #Jedermann salzburg #Kaffeehaus #Kaffeehaus-Kultur #Klaus Maria Brandauer #Maria Schell #Marlene Dietrich #Max Reinhardt #Melange #Oskar Werner #Otto Tomaselli #Richard Tomaselli #Romy Schneider #Salzach #Salzburg #Salzburger Domplatz #Salzburger Festspiele #Salzburger Jedermann #Stefan Zweig #Theodor Herzl #Thomas Bernhard #Thomas Mann #Tobias Moretti

[kayflapper]

Elsie Cotton, known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. She was best known for her starring role in the London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.

[official-lauchzwiebel]

Tag game by @genxrocker ! Pick a song for each letter of your URL, and then tag that many people!

Thanks for tagging me @get-the-cheese-to-sickbay ! :)

My url has quite a lot of letters, so buckle up buckaroos! I'm giving you a little tour >:)

O - Opernboogie by Georg Kreisler 😎

F - Funny How Love Is by Queen

F - Francesca by Hozier

I - If You'll Have Me by Paul Englishby (Part of the soundtrack of 'Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day' - highly recommend!)

C - Ciaccona (I&II) by L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

I - Iris's Song For Us by Vashti Bunyan

A - Ae Fond Kiss by The Corries

L - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

L - Lippen Schweigen (Waltz Song - The Merry Widow) by Franz Lehár, sung by Richard Tauber

A - Ankomme Freitag, den 13. by Reinhard Mey

U - (Ummmm, Oh Yeah) Dearest by Buddy Holly

C - Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä

H - Humoresque Nr. 8 by Antonín Dvořák

Z - Zeugnistag by Reinhard Mey

W - While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping by June Tabor

I - I'm Fine by Daisy the Great

E - Everybodee Who's Anybodee by Cole Porter

B - Back That Azz Up by JUVENILE, Lil Wayne, Mannie Fresh

E - Ein ehrenwertes Haus by Udo Jürgens

L - Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver

If you're seeing this, consider yourself tagged!!

Addtionally, I'm tagging @brandybradyrandyandyndy @caressthosecheekbones @liebelesbe @chaotic-carnifex @vosquitransitis @momdailykos @itsfantasticallyhomoerotic @luminatingsatan @basilikum7 @wolfossum @thefebruaryfriday @schlauhonk @joghurtbrot @gaytomatic

Of course, only do it if you want to :)

#ask game #yes i didnt tag that may people but shhh it's fine #:) #Querschnitt durch meinen (momentanen) Musikgeschmack #man gönne sich #B)

[thriftstorerecords]

Franz Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe Münchener Philharmoniker Conducted by Edmund Nick Vocals: Elfride Trötschel, Valerie Bak, Walther Ludwig, Willy Hofmann Polydor Records/Germany (1958)

[brookston]

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Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Alice, Darling (Film; 2022)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV Cartoon Series; 2000)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Film; 1925)

Born to Die, by Lana Del Rey (Song; 2011)

The Curious Puppy (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

Dallas (Film; 1950)

The Gallopin’ Gaucho (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway Musical; 1948)

Let’s Make a Deal (TV game Show; 1963)

A Man Called Otto (Film; 2022)

The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehár (Operetta; 1905)

My Way, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1968)

Nelly’s Folly (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

No Man of Her Own (Film; 1932)

Rob Roy, by Walter Scott (Novel; 1817)

The Roy Rogers Show (TV Series; 1951)

Some Came Running, by James Jones (Novel; 1957)

Sounder, by William H. Armstrong (Novel; 1969)

Tainted Dreams (TV Soap Opera; 2013)

Tangled Up In Blue, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1974)

Tin Yop (Pixar Cartoon; 1988)

Two’s a Crowd (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Why Him? (Film; 2016)

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Day of Year: Day 364 of 2024; 1 days remaining in the year

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Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 18 (Ren-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 17 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 4 Fest; Foursday [4 of 5]

Julian: 17 December 2023

Moon: 87%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Bichat (13th Month) [Gall]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 10 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 9 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

[lilacacia]

Went to the theatre with my Mom again yesterday! We watched The Land of Smiles by Franz Lehár (in Hungarian). It won't be one of my favorites but the production was so good 😊 The performers in Szeged never cease to amaze me!

#nonsims #bea.txt

[sexygaywizard]

for the spotify wrapped,

42!

😭 Score study and memorization put a lot of tracks on my wrapped this yearrrr... I sang this piece as the finale of my junior recital

#i answer #spotify wrapped

[byneddiedingo]

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Erik Rhodes in The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich, 1934)

Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Lillian Miles, Charles Coleman, William Austin, Betty Grable. Screenplay: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman, based on a musical play by Dwight Taylor. Cinematography: David Abel. Art direction: Carroll Clark, Van Nest Polglase. Film editing: William Hamilton. Music: Max Steiner (score), Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, Con Conrad and Herb Magidson, Cole Porter (songs). 

Obviously, The Gay Divorcee wouldn't pass muster as the title for a heterosexual romantic comedy today, but the film's producers had to jump a few hurdles even in 1934, when the Hays Office censors were about to yield to the much stricter Production Code. The title of the Broadway musical on which the movie was based was Gay Divorce, and Catholic censors were strictly opposed to the idea that divorce could be anything other than a sin. However, assuming that she'd done her penance, a divorcee could be gay (in the older sense), just as Franz Lehár's old operetta asserted that a widow could be merry. This was the first teaming of Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers in which they were the stars: They had been supporting players in their previous film, Flying Down to Rio (Thornton Freeland and George Nicholls Jr., 1933), but their dance numbers had caused such a sensation that RKO was eager to craft a musical around them. Pandro S. Berman, head of production at the studio, purchased the rights to Gay Divorce, in which Astaire had been the star on Broadway, and put a team of writers (including an uncredited Robert Benchley) to work revising the musical's book by Dwight Taylor. The Broadway version had a score by Cole Porter, but all but one of his songs were jettisoned for the film. That song was the best, however: "Night and Day," which gave the stars their first great fall-in-love pas de deux. The screenplay takes the farcical premise of the play: Mimi Glossop (Rogers), seeks a divorce from her husband, and since they're in England, where the only justification for divorce is adultery, she, with the help of her Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) and the lawyer Egbert Fitzgerald (Edward Everett Horton), arranges to be caught in a hotel room with a professional co-respondent, Rodolfo Tonetti (Erik Rhodes, who had played the role on Broadway). Meanwhile, however, she has fallen in love with Guy Holden (Astaire), an American she has just met -- and, of course, met cute. Through a sequence of screwball accidents, she winds up thinking that he's the co-respondent, and is disgusted that he should have such a sordid job. Eventually, everything is sorted out with the help of a hotel waiter (Eric Blore, also from the Broadway cast). In the middle of everything, there's a 20-minute-long production number centered on the film's big song, "The Continental," for which composer Con Conrad and lyricist Herb Magidson won the first Oscar ever given for a song written for a movie. The Gay Divorcee would rank with the best Astaire-Rogers films if it had a better score. Aside from "Night and Day," the rest are mostly forgettable novelty numbers, like "Let's K-nock K-nees," which is performed by a then-unknown Betty Grable with Horton and a gang of chorus members. 

#The Gay Divorcee #Mark Sandrich #Fred Astaire #Ginger Rogers #Erik Rhodes