Baron Zeta becomes one of the suitors when he finds the fan with the words "I love you" addressed to his wife, but the Pontevedrian protagonist is in love with a man who hangs out at Maxim's with the Can-Can dancing girls, Count Danillo.
One character in this opera snores the first four notes of Beethoven's fifth upon falling asleep after singing the aria "I'm Off Chez." Njegus sings with a very bad accent of being from a Balkan village and trying to integrate into Parisian society in the aria "Words Forbidden," while St. Brioche and Cascada join in in an aria about "Girls, Girls, Girls." The title character fills in for Valencienne in the pavilion, so all thinks that she's marrying Camille Rasillon. Baron Zeta becomes one of the suitors when he finds the fan with the words "I love you" addressed to his wife, but the Pontevedrian protagonist is in love with a man who hangs out at Maxim's with the Can-Can dancing girls, Count Danillo. For 10 points, name this opera about the happy and eligible young heiress Anna Glawari, by Franz Lehar.
One character in this opera snores the first four notes of Beethoven's fifth upon falling asleep after singing the aria "I'm Off Chez.
The {Merry Widow}; or Die {lustige Witwe}