Falstaff

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Lyrical comedy in three acts | Libretto by Arrigo Boito | In Italian with German surtitles

for ages 14 and up

Sir John Falstaff is a man who wants everything: money, power, women, pleasure - and control. But in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, it is the women who call the shots. Alice Ford, Meg Page and Mrs. Quickly counter Falstaff's audacity with wit and ingenuity, challenging an order that tries to force them into rigid roles and monotonous dreariness.

In a world dominated by greed, jealousy and social constraints, all the characters struggle against an invisible net of expectations and entrenched role models. And then there is Falstaff - an eternal outsider who may lose the game, but not his sense of humor.

With subtle irony and brilliant musical lightness, Verdi shows a society in upheaval in his last opera: a dance on the tightrope between comedy and tragedy, chaos and order. And in the end, the question remains: who is the fool - the one who makes the rules or the one who breaks them?