Organization

Sångare

Soprano

Tatiana Larina

Hanna Glawari

Maraike Schröter

Baritone

Reto Rosin

Graf Danilo Danilowitsch

Till von Orlowsky

Baron Mirko Zeta

Marie Hänsel

Valencienne

Tenor

Thomas Kiechle

Camille de Rosillon

Spoken

Gerhard Ernst

Njegus

Felix Rohleder

Kromow

Daniel Pastewski

Bogdanowitsch

Tea Trifković Ferenc

Sylviane

Konrad Furian

Raoul de Saint-Brioche

Mezzo-soprano

Antigone Papoulkas

Olga

André Eckert

Pritschitsch

Sylvia Schramm-Heilfort

Praškowia

Regissör

Michael Schilhan

Dirigent

Diego Martin-Etxebarria

Kostym designer

Alexia Redl

Scenograf

Koreograf

Allen Yu

Dramaturg

Johannes Frohnsdorf

Körledare

Stefan Bilz

Timo Rößner

Vicomte Cascada

Theater Chemnitz

Die lustige Witwe -  (Glada änkan)

Chemnitz

Tyskland

Opernhaus Chemnitz

Public

Private

Glada änkan

Approved

The Viennese comedian Fritz Grünbaum already knew: “In the absence of a better restaurant, the people dance on the volcano”. Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widowseems to exemplify the pointed statement. Here, more precisely, you dance at the embassy ball or in the nightclub, and while the fate of the fatherland hangs by a thread, the diplomatic corps of the small state of Pontevedro enjoys life in Paris to the full. At the same time, everyone looks at the young widow Hanna Glawari, whose hand the Parisian male world is wooing. If the Pontevedrin heiress does not marry a compatriot, her fortune migrates abroad. Your home state would be bankrupt in one fell swoop. Chief diplomat Baron Zeta puts everything on one card: Legation Secretary Count Danilo Danilowitsch is supposed to avert the impending catastrophe, preferably by marrying the Glawari himself. The notorious bachelor doesn't even think about it. He feels much too at home with the Grisettes in Maxim. And wasn't there an old story between him and Hanna? ... After the meeting of the two leads to a formal "declaration of war" and Hanna becomes engaged to a Frenchman, the bankruptcy seems inevitable. Nevertheless, Pontevedro gets away with it again. Hanna, the Parisian gentlemen are really pissed off. All she is looking for is the man who she truly loves, even without her money, and of course she finds him - in Danilo.

Franz Lehárs The Merry Widow  became a worldwide success in 1905 and the hour of birth of the modern operetta. Melodies like lips are silent , There I go to Maxim or The study of women is difficult became common property in a very short time. Lehár's masterpiece easily unites questions of money and love, political satire and the struggle of a self-determined heroine for the man she wants.

Director Michael Schilhan already impressed people in Chemnitz with his productions The Magic Flute and Emil and the Detectives . Now he will trace the corrupt and cheerful diplomats. Anyone who walks through life with alert eyes like Schilhan knows: Pontevedro is everywhere and Grünbaum's bon mot is timelessly up-to-date.

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