US tour
Played 71 cities across more than 30 states, covering 17,500 miles by land and 12,500 by air with a cast of 48 opera singers and dancers, plus a full orchestra.
Baron Zeta is desperate that the wealthy widow Hanna Glavari marry a Pontevedrian man so that her fortune remains in the country. He attempts to match her with his handsome attaché, Danilo.
It turns out that Danilo and Hanna had an affair in years past. Danilo refuses to fall in love with her again because he doesn’t want it to look like he’s after her money. Hanna informs him that she forfeits her entire fortune if she remarries and Danilo joyously asks for her hand in marriage. She accepts, only to reveal that she will only lose her money because she will give it all to her new husband.
This production blew into town near the end of a 70-city American tour that began in January. Yet the energetic cast betrayed hardly any signs of road-weariness.
Richard S. Ginell
Los Angeles Times