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. His collaboration with VIKTOR LÉON, a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist contributed much to Lehár's success. Together Stein and Léon wrote the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).