This is a brilliant and successful ballet version, passionate and elegant, it really should be performed more often on stage.

That was stunning.... and that dress... looked so amazing during the turns... props to the costume designer! Stunning sets, beautiful music by Lehar & two amazing dancers... Fantastic...Thank you so much for sharing, that was bliss 💖🌹💖🌹💖

How does one go through life having heard some of the most beautiful music in the world and not know where it came from. Thank you for this beautiful ballet piece with music I have always loved and been ignorant of its origins.

Beautiful! One of my favorite ballets!

Best performance, choreography, and stage setting for this operetta.

This ballet has to be one of the most enjoyable in any company's rep! Why is it performed so seldom?

Always brings me to tears. Perfection.

Seamless Perfection

Spectacular.. and so romantic and dreamy...

Thanks Tony. I thought she was absolutely glorious !

Stunning production, the sets are opulent, the costumes are beautiful and the choreography and dancing is exquisite. The four leads are faultless.

WOW ! I love it ! ! !

Magnífico ❤❤❤

Beautiful elegance embodied .

Just surreal. Stupendous!!!

GRACE.... personified!!

saw Fonteyn perform this role here in Australia in 1976 - the amount of porteur-ing (my word!) suited her then - a fond farewell for my seeing her on stage.

Lisa Pavane was a spectacular dancer. So much charisma on stage, and with Steven Heathcote, they had a chemistry during this particular production. I wish I could have seen more of them dancing together. This was the only year they were at the Australian Ballet together. (1993)

Beautifully stunning! OMG!

A royal feast to the senses!

Great mastepiece. Great tribute to humanity. Lisa Pavane is a goddess. As I write this, Lady GaGa has 20 million hits, Lisa Pavone has two thousand. There has to be something wrong with humanity.

Сильное впечатление от прекрасного воплощения балетным дуэтом экспрессивно-утонченной музыки Ф.Легара в ее оркестровом развитии с яркими кульминациями.Спасибо!

SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

Bellísimo. Gracias.

Wonderful

C'est très joli !

My favorite.

Lisa Pavanne, that's it - we were talking about Lisa Pavanne. She's more than a routine ballerina in that she was a businesswoman and Director of the Sidney Ballet for many years. She eventually moved to London and took over control of the London Ballet. If you remember my comments on Rembrandt, if we do some homework about the work we're about the see/hear, it's much more rewarding. Remember Bethsheba holding David's letter dejectedly. In the following scene from Lehar's Merry Widow, the subtitle is “Count Danilo and the Merry Widow realize they've fallen in love.” This is important to know in that in the first 15 seconds we see Lisa's feminine reaction: she realizes that love is wonderful but it's a life-changing event, filled with new feeling and emotion -- and above all responsibility. Notice the first seconds of the video how a great artist conveys these sentiments without saying a word. She gives in to the emotion and enters a new world defying gravity, literally.

Beutyfull.Fin de siacle music.

A splendid performance

Very moving. A great ending to my favourite ballet.

Poor one who doesn't recognize these beautiful values of art... 🌹💕

At 2:00 this Merry Widow dance contains all the ingredients that projects the epitome of all close relations between a man and a woman where bodies and soul meet to become united to produce more than what music and a dance ever could.

A very sweet music

Ｉ like this part dancing nice .thank you. 謝謝．二位舞者很夾拍、好看

Beautiful.

excelente! fascinante!

¡Què lindo ! Y en ballet mi opereta favorita. Me gustarìa verla toda

beautiful calming perfection 💕

Check the info: Lisa Pavane

How can they not want to go make out after a dance sequence like that?!

Wonderful :)

so beautyfyful!!

ANNA.MARTÍ.🐾🐾.FURMÓS FINAL..❤❤💕👏👏👏👏🌲🌲 DE LÁ ÓPERETA LÁ VIUDA ALEGRA DE FRANK LEART. PRESÍOSA 🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎶 LÁ MÚSICÁ FANTÁSTICA Í TOTS ELS CANTANS ÚN ( 10 ) 🐾🦋🌹🌺

meraviglioso

I saw this production live with this cast. It was simply fantastic. I have the DVD and its one I revisit often. I saw a more recent version of the same production with a different cast and it just wasn't the same. They were very good but it didn't have the spark of this one.

Is there also a video of Karen Kane in a Canadian production?

Unfortunately, it isn't available any more at the ABC.

I know its the divine Stephen Heathcote but who is the Widow?

I thought so, what a dream she was.

Great performance! Who are the artists?

People who made 14 dislike (till now) are not only deaf and blind but I think they miss the whole set of five senses.

1:34 2:46

To csorba , györg ...

Lost fru , fru , bibi

I just love this pas de deux. Such a shame about this version of Hannah's costume though. Thankfully they went back to following Desmond Heeley's original design more closely after this. Not a patch on Heeley's original design.