Danilo's Story
As I have said before, there are many treats around on the www during this lockdown as musicians, orchestras, opera companies, theatres and much more all find themselves unable to perform as they would normally do. One of those is the Metropolitan Opera of New York who are offering a stream of an opera from their recordings each evening. Tonight it is Franz Lehar's Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow).
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Many years ago one of my friends (you know who you are!!) was starring in a production of this operetta. I vividly remember that I was co-opted, for practice purposes, to play the part of Hanna Glawari to his Danilo.
Bizarrely, even now - almost 50 years later I guess - I can still remember every word of this song - both the words sung by Danilo and those sung by Hanna and "the company".
So here is a brief highlight prior to the Met's performance tonight - it is the finale of Act 2 - and I'm not actually off to Chez Maxim because I am still in lockdown.
