• HANNA (Madame Glavari) - "The Merry Widow".
Young, pretty, vivacious, all the title implies. High soprano: low B flat to
top B flat with optional C
• DANILO (Count Danilovitsch) - aristocratic
playboy-attaché at the Pontevedrian Embassy in Paris. Cheerful, debonair,
irresponsible, very attractive to the ladies - of whose company, along with his
wine, he is extremely fond. High baritone: low A to top F.
• BARON ZETA - Pontevedrian Ambassador in Paris.
Middle-aged: a little pompous, comic when he is trying to be a dutiful official,
a bit of an old rogue but very likeable; over confident of his wife's virtues.
Baritone: low A to top E, with optional F.
• VALENCIENNE (Baroness Zeta) - the Ambassador's rather
foolish but would-be-faithful wife. Naïvely amorous, she lacks the courage to
stray from the straight and narrow path, but cannot bring herself effectively
to dismiss the young man who tempts her from it. Soprano: low B flat to top B
flat.
• CAMILLE (Count de Rosillon) - the ardent young
Frenchman in love with Valencienne. Light tenor: middle C to A flat, with
optional B flat.
• NJEGUS - Baron Zeta's Factotum. Sly; amusing; a
"character". Baritone: low B flat to top B flat.
• ST BRIOCHE and CASCADA - two diplomatic guests at the
Embassy. Though entangled with married ladies, they are rivals for the hand of
the Widow. They are both conceited, shallow and rather ridiculous. Baritones:
St Brioche, low D to top F; Cascada, middle C to top F.
• KROMOV - an attaché who is forever nagging his wife
for flirting; self-important, with an absurdly over-punctilious manner.
Baritone: low B flat to top E flat.
• OLGA - wife of Kromov. Contralto: low D to top E
flat.
• BOGDANOVITSCH and PRITSCH - attachés at the Embassy.
Baritones: middle C to top E flat.
• SYLVIA and PRASKOVIA - lady guests at the Embassy.
Sylvia mezzo-soprano: D to top A flat:
• PRASKOVIA, contralto: D to D.
• LOLO, DODO, JOU-JOU, FROU-FROU, CLO-CLO, MARGOT - "grisettes" at Maxim's - soubrettes: middle C to top F.
• LOLO, DODO, JOU-JOU, FROU-FROU, CLO-CLO, MARGOT - "grisettes" at Maxim's - soubrettes: middle C to top F.
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