The Merry Widow at Nationaltheater Mannheim

Pontevedro is broke. How good that the Principality can count on the keenness of his diplomats. Baron Mirko Zeta, the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, has a brilliant idea: Hanna Glawari that in Paris vergnügende millionaire widow of pontevedrinischen court bankers, must be so that the assets the state is not lost, married, from a Pontevedriner - understood. As simple as this idea is, so many hooks it also. First Glawari is courted by a swarm of French fortune hunter, which represent a potential danger for Zetas "diplomatic maneuver". Second, the very rich widow is full of suspicion against the man's world, which is supposedly in love rather than in their money in it. And third of the groom chosen by Baron Zeta Count Danilo Danilovich has a rich history of love and suffering with the beautiful Hanna ...

Franz Lehar's most famous work was premiered in the Theater an der Wien in 1905 and brought it alone until the death year of the composer in 1948 at more than 300,000 performances around the globe. Today is The Merry Widow one of the most successful operettas ever. Your exceedingly great fame is attributable not least to the wealth of hits like Then I go to Maxim, lips are silent, Dummer horseman, the Vilja-Lied and many more.