Franz Lehár. Theatre Register

Also credited on2 works

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature3 passages

The Merry Widow . Music by Franz Lehár, original lyrics by Victor Leon and Leo Stein; English lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Vocal score: Chappell, 1977.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
On 30 December 1905, a Viennese audience at the Theater an der Wien attended the premiere of Franz Lehár’s three-act operetta Die lustige Witwe . 5 Its libretto, written by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, was based on Henri Meil-hac’s four-act play, L’attaché d’ambassade (1861). The plot revolves around Hanna Glawari, a rich, young widow from…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
10 Bernard Grun, Gold and Silver: The Life and Times of Franz Lehár (London, 1970), p. 128.ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
Which of the credits above the roles on this record — composer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.