In the organizer's words:

Comic opera in three acts by Otto Nicolai

Nicolai's versatile masterpiece celebrates its premiere as the second musical theater production of the season. The director is Christian Poewe, who appreciates the opera as a pointed, witty comedy: the smug knight Falstaff meets the petty Windsor like a wild elemental force.

Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare
Libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal
In German with German surtitles

Mrs. Fluth and Mrs. Reich, two married ladies, receive love letters at the same time from the charming Hallodri Falstaff. They decide to teach him a lesson and their husbands as well. At the same time, Anna, Mrs. Reich's daughter, has to fend off three suitors at once. German romance meets

meets Italian charm. The comedic material by William Shakespeare unfolds in Nicolai's "comic-fantastic" opera into an equally humorous and touching comedy about gender roles and the longing for love.