Franz Lehár
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Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.
Lehár, likely sometime between 1915 and 1920
Lehár in 1906
Lehár at the piano in his apartment in Vienna, 1918
Lehár Villa in Bad Ischl (near Salzburg), the composer's summer residence from 1912, now a museum
The Land of Smiles
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The Land of Smiles is a 1929 romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German language libretto was by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner-Beda. The performance duration is about 100 minutes.
Franz Lehár
…some of the operettas have become standards, notably "Vilja" from The Merry Widow and "You Are My Heart's Delight" ("Dein ist mein ganzes Herz") from The Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns). His most ambitious work, Giuditta in 1934 is closer to opera than to operetta. It contains the ever popular "Meine Lippen, sie…
Berlin, 1930