08.01.2009 9:56 pm
Union Avenue Opera: About those “Merry Widow” helmets
Post-Dispatch Classical Music
A hussar. (There were no horses onstage)
If you go to see Franz Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe (better known in English-speaking countries as The Merry Widow), your eye might be caught by the colorful military uniforms - including square-topped helmets -…
