The Met Opera on WRTI: THE MERRY WIDOW with Renee Fleming, Jan. 17, 1 PM

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Published January 17, 2015 at 9:23 AM EST

Renée Fleming and Nathan Gunn in the Met Opera's The Merry Widow"

The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all of Paris in Franz Lehár’s enchanting operetta, The Merry Widow. 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 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac. Saturday, January 17, 1 to 4 pm on WRTI 90.1 FM.

Synopsis

Cast:
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Hanna Glawari: Renée Fleming
Valencienne: Kelli O'Hara
Danilo: Nathan Gunn
Camille de Rosillon: Alek Shrader
Baron Mirko Zeta: Thomas Allen