Untitled A Mafia Makeover: Lehár’s Operetta Reimagined Scottish Opera’s latest reimagining of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow confidently sidesteps the gilded nostalgia of Belle Époque Paris, landing instead in the noir-ish shadows of 1950s New York. This updated adaptation, co-produced with D’Oyly Carte Opera and Opera Holland Park, sets out to reconcile the operetta's sentimental froth with the sharper contours of post-war American cynicism.

"...by planting Lehár’s lovers among gangsters & grifters, Scottish Opera invites its audience to consider love as negotiation; a dangerous, vulnerable, thrilling risk.

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