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A Narrative Retelling of Franz Lehár's Die lustige Witwe or The Merry Widow
Original book and lyrics by Victor Léon and Leo Stein
Excerpts and lyrics from the English translation by Jeremy Sams
Partly based on the 1997 Royal Opera House production of The Merry Widow with Dame Felicity Lott and Sir Thomas Allen
PARIS, 1905
Dramatis personae
Hanna Glawari…The Merry Widow
Count Danilo Danilovitsch…First Secretary of the Pontevedrian Embassy in Paris
Baron Mirko Zeta…Pontevedrian Ambassador in Paris
Baroness Valencienne Zeta…The Ambassador's Wife
Camille, Count de Rosillon…French attaché to the Embassy and admirer of Valencienne
Njegus…Baron Zeta's Factotum
Kromov…Pontevedrian military councillor
Olga…Kromov's wife
Pritschitisch…Embassy counsel
Bogdanovitsch…Pontevedrian military attaché
Sylvianne…Bogdanovitsch's wife
Raoul St Brioche…French diplomat
Vicomte Cascada…Latin diplomat
Lolo, Dodo, Jou-Jou, Frou-Frou, Clo-Clo, Margot…"Grisettes" at Maxim's
Parisians and Pontevedrians, musicians and servants
