Name: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Start: 2015-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Théâtre Royal de Liège

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Organization

Bass

Franz Hawlata

Sir John Falstaff

Soprano

Anneke Luyten

Mrs Fluth

Baritone

Werner Van Mechelen

Mr Fluth

Mezzo-soprano

Sabina Willeit

Mrs Reich

Laurent Kubla

Mr Reich

Tenor

Davide Giusti

Fenton

Sophie Junker

Anna Reich

Stefan Cifolelli

Junker Sparlich

Patrick Delcour

Dr Cajus

Spoken

Patrick Mignon

First citizen

Singer

Sébastien Dutrieux

Le thérapeute

Conductor

Christian Zacharias

Stage director

David Hermann

Costume designer

Ariane Isabell Unfried

Set designer

Rifail Ajdarpasic

Royal Opera of Wallonia

German

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor -  (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Liège

Belgium

Théâtre Royal de Liège

Petit Théâtre

At the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, stage director David Hermann and music director Christian Zacharias lead a production of Otto Nicolai's 1849 opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, a work that draws its inspiration from William Shakespeare's beloved eponymous play.

Depicting the comedic adventures of an unhappy rascal on a quest for affection and money, Shakespeare’s original pearl of a play caricatures the bourgeois mores of his age. All the essential ingredients for a top-notch comic opera can be found in this hilarious romp of a comedy of errors, qualities Verdi put on full display in Falstaff, his own 1893 adaptation of the tale. But before Verdi’s work came Otto Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, a three-act Singspiel mixing spoken dialogue and musical numbers. By the time he composed the work, Nicolai had already achieved considerable success with Italian operas, but it was this new work in his native German that would become his masterpiece.

Production booklet

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