Eine Nacht in Venedig by Strauss II, Di. 27 Apr. 2021, Ab (2020/2021), Unter der Regie von Thomas Weber-Schallauer,, Dirigat Harish Shankar, Meininger Theater, Meiningen, Deutschland

The carnival and lagoon city of Venice provides the backdrop for this good-mood piece from Vienna's heyday of the “waltz king” and the most famous Viennese par excellence, Johann Strauss. Three old senators with three adventurous women, a charming duke who casts a spell over all women with the seductive rhythm of his gondola song, a loyal barber, a macaroni cook and a desirable fisher girl are the ingredients of an old recipe in which hidden identities behind the colorful Venetian masks cause confusion and in the disguise, entanglements and confusion without end somehow lead to the obligatory "lieto fine" - it's an operetta: "Everyone masks where fun, where madness and lust reign!" The Austrian director and actor Thomas Weber-Schallauer, who is working as a director at the Meiningen State Theater for the first time, guides us through this lively, dance-like jumble.