Experience the ninth season of the Metropolitan Operas Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in select cinemas nationwide. The broadcast of Lehárs The Merry Widow will be presented live on Saturday, January 17 at 12:55 p.m. ET / 9:55 a.m. PT.
The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling woman who captivates all of Paris in Lehárs enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact). Stroman and her team, set designer Julian Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens, Hairspray), have created an art-nouveau setting that climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxims. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli OHara is Valencienne. Sir Andrew Davis conducts.