![]() ![]() ![]() The Merry Widow, however, was an instant hummable triumph, full of reassuringly sentimental charms that have made it an international favorite ever since. Salome offered the shock of the modern in biblical dress (and undress)-it was banned from the Metropolitan Opera after its first performance there in 1907. In December 1905 Richard Strauss’s opera Salome-blasphemous and obscene in its libretto, fiercely dissonant in its music-had its scandalous premiere in Dresden, and Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow ( Die lustige Witwe) was first performed in Vienna. Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in the first London production of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow, 1907 ![]()
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