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Viktor Léon. Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 23 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár 's romantic ...
The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac.
Viktor Léon. Guion: La viuda alegre. Viktor Léon nació el 4 de enero de 1858 en Szenic, Nyitra, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [ahora Senica, Slovak Republic]. Fue un escritor y actor, conocido por La viuda alegre (1934), The Merry Widow (1925) y La viuda alegre (1952). Estuvo casado con Ottilie Popper.
Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fortune in their home country of Pontevedro. Kelli O’Hara sings Valencienne, the flirtatious young wife of the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, Baron Zeta, played by Thomas Allen, and Alek Shrader is her suitor, Camille.
The play was soon translated into German, and it was this version that librettists Viktor Léon and Leo Stein decided to turn into an operetta. Although The Merry Widow went on to be hugely successful, Meilhac is better known for his work as a librettist.
Léon's photograph collection of 961 images consists primarily of portraits of prominent people in Viennese opera, production photographs of his operas, and other friends and family, including about 80 photographs of Léon's daughter, Lizzy. Includes photographs of Hans Heinz Bollman; Konrad Dreher (b. 1859); Alexander Girardi; Mizzi Gunther ...
Victor Leon. LEO STEIN was a Viennese playwright and librettist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works adapted for a number of Broadway productions. Stein wrote libretti for Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, and Oskar Nedbal.
