He attracted attention when he appeared as Prince Danilo in the 1923 London production of The Merry Widow at Daly's.
Whether with music, as in MGM's opulent The Merry Widow (1934) and Paramount's One Hour with You (1932), or without, as in Design for Living (1933), Lubitsch continued to specialize in comedy.
Among other commissions, he has created artwork for productions of operas The Merry Widow, Madame Butterfly, and La bohème.
On 5 September 2007, Fontosh sang at the Värmland Classic Festival together with José Carreras, among the pieces was Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow".
In Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide in 1999, John O'May appeared as Danilo, Marina Prior as "Hanna", Max Gillies as Zeta, Gallaher as Camille and Donaldson as Valencienne.
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Baron Zeta has in mind Count Danilo Danilovitsch, the First Secretary of the embassy, but his plans are not going well.
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Prince Danilo resurfaced in 1934 when he sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel and collected $4,000 in a Paris court for the false depiction of him in the first version of the film The Merry Widow.
Founded in 1952 by Orva Hoskinson and Ann Pool MacNab, the Lamplighters specialize in light opera, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as such works as The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, Of Thee I Sing, My Fair Lady, Candide, and A Little Night Music.
Lily Elsie (8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.
He dubbed the voices of Fernando Lamas in the 1952 film The Merry Widow, Howard Keel in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) and Danny Kaye in Hans Christian Andersen (1952).
In 1997, when the Royal Opera House had to close for renovations, they presented a season at the Shaftesbury Theatre, including some lighter works, such as a new production of The Merry Widow with a translation by Jeremy Sams.
Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).
He is considered one of the greatest actors Bergen has produced in recent times, with roles such as Bosch, in "January Herwitz", Wing Rice in Nordahl Grieg's "Our Honor and Our Glory", a variety of roles in Shakespeare plays, Njegus in "The Merry Widow", Leopold in "Summer in the Tyrol", and Loman in Death of a Salesman.