Franz Lehar's bright, carefree music will probably always have a home on New Year's Day programs, such as the Vienna Philharmonic's famous annual concert. The Slovak Radio Symphony didn't need the new ...

“Americans,” Franz Lehar once complained, “know me only as the creator of The Merry Widow” But how well they knew The Merry Widow! In 1907, the Widow’s gay Viennese charm had captured Broadway. Merry ...

Franz Lehár has written 13 shows including The Count of Luxembourg (Composer), The Merry Widow (Composer), The Merry Widow Burlesque (Composer), Gypsy Love (Composer), The Count of Luxembourg ...

The little old man in a pink Tyrolean shirt played the piano with trembling hands. When the two Allied war correspondents swayed to his lilting Merry Widow Waltz, tears came to the old man’s eyes.

Back in the day when holidays abroad meant taking the ferry, our little family fixed a fortnight in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast. I've a couple of memories of that summer in short trousers ...

Fritz Loener-Beda, popular Viennese writer and librettist-collaborator of the composer Franz Lehar, has committed suicide in the Buchenwald concentration camp, it was reliably learned here today. The ...

The latest news and top stories on Franz Lehár. Known as a prominent Austro-Hungarian composer, he is celebrated for his operettas, most notably 'The Merry Widow', which achieved worldwide success and ...