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Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 23 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist.
Viktor Léon. Writer: The Merry Widow. Viktor Léon was born on 4 January 1858 in Szenic, Nyitra, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Senica, Slovak Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Merry Widow (1934), The Merry Widow (1925) and The Merry Widow (1952). He was married to Ottilie Popper.
The Merry Widow / Glyndebourne Festival 2024. Composer: Franz Lehár. Librettist: Viktor Leon and Leo Stein. Sung In: English. Version: A new version by Stephen Plaice and Marcia Bellamy based on the original by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein. Sponsor: Handel and Yvonne Evans.
The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe [diː ˈlʊstɪɡə ˈvɪtvə]) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 ...
Happily, the work found greater success in a German translation at the Carltheater in Vienna, where it was regularly revived to great popular acclaim. It was during one of these revivals that the librettists Viktor Léon and Leo Stein decided to turn Meilhac’s comedy into an operetta.
Aug 20, 2018 · The Merry Widow was the brainchild of original librettists Leo Stein and Viktor Léon, who had come across a play named L’attaché d’ambassade and thought it would make a good operetta. Lehár wasn’t even the first composer that they approached – he was the second – but once the librettists were convinced by his ability to create an ...
Viktor Léon, born in Senica, Slovakia, 1858; died in Vienna 1940. Librettist of Der Rastelbinder, Die lustige Witwe (with Leo Stein), Der fidele Bauer, Die geschiedene Frau, Das Fürstenkind and Gold gab ich fur Eisen.
