The Merry Widow: Quick Facts

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Lily Elsie as Sonia and Joseph Coyne as Prince Danilo sit back-to-back on chairs in elegant period costumes in a scene from the 1907 operetta The Merry Widow.

Franz Lehar stands in formal attire with a white bow tie and medals, resting one arm on a decorative banister in an ornately decorated interior.

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