'The Merry Widow' sings of a Paris fling
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| Diane Alexander plays the title role, center, with Kevin Anderson as Camille de Rosillon and Lea Woods Friedman as Valencienne.
Photos by Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
Advertiser Staff
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| Valencienne and Camille have their own illicit romantic fling going. |
The story: It is late 19th-century, glittery Paris, and Hanna Glawari, the lovely widow of the richest man in Pontevedro (a fictitious Balkan state), is the woman of the moment. The handsome Danilo, a Pontevedrian who loved Hanna before her marriage, is poised to court and marry the widow to keep her money in the homeland. Performed in English.
The details:
- 8 p.m. today, 4 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Lectures are offered at one hour and at a half-hour before each performance.
- Blaisdell Concert Hall
- $29-$100
- 596-7858
Who's who: Directed by Brian Deedrick, conducted by Mark D. Flint and starring Diane Alexander as Hanna Glawari, Louis Otey as Danilo, with Honolulu's Lea Woods Friedman in the featured role of Valencienne.
What's next: Yes, opera fans, it'll be a HOT time in the summer with a staging of "The Mikado," the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta about the loves and laughs of Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum and Ko-ko. Directed by Henry Akina, it's happening Aug. 6-8, 13-15.
