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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.
Viktor Léon was born on 4 January 1858 in Szenic, Nyitra, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Senica, Slovak Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Merry Widow (1934), The Merry Widow (1925) and The Merry Widow (1952).
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. Writer: The Merry Widow. Viktor Léon was born on 4 January 1858 in Szenic, Nyitra, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Senica, Slovak Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Merry Widow (1934), The Merry Widow (1925) and The Merry Widow (1952). He was married to Ottilie Popper.
Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Merry Widow.
The Merry Widow, comic operetta in three acts by Hungarian composer Franz Lehár (libretto in German by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based upon L’Attaché d’ambassade, a comic play from 1861 by Henri Meilhac, best known as the librettist for Georges Bizet’s Carmen) that premiered at the Theater an der.
Viktor Léon, born in Senica, Slovakia, 1858; died in Vienna 1940. Librettist of Der Rastelbinder, Die lustige Witwe (with Leo Stein), Der fidele Bauer, Die geschiedene Frau, Das Fürstenkind and Gold gab ich fur Eisen.
