Opera

My Fair Lady

Frederick Loewe (1901 – 1988)
Musical in two acts
Performed in German
Based on Bernard Shaw's »Pygmalion« and the film by Gabriel Pascal
Book by Alan Jay Lerner
Music Frederick Loewe
German version by Robert Gilbert
Premiere: 1956 in New York

Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster

A Broadway classic, "My Fair Lady" brings song and dance to George Bernard Shaw's satirical play "Pygmalion". Based on an ancient Greek myth, the story revolves around a man who creates his version of the ideal woman - but what should happen when this "creation" decides to be independent, with her own ideas and opinions? At first, the young, uneducated Eliza and her particular brand of street slang present a mere scientific challenge to linguist Henry Higgins - the subject of a bet amongst friends. As soon as she learns to pronounce "The rain in Spain..." and passes for an educated lady at the ball, he loses interest in her. Or is there more to the story after all?

Cast

Conductor Holger Reinhardt
Director Beka Savić
Stage Designer Bettina Neuhaus
Costume Designer Claudia Jenatsch
Choreographer Myriam Lifka
Lighting Designer Andreas Frank
Chorus Master Albert Horne
Dramaturgy Katja Leclerc, Laura Weber
Professor Henry Higgins Uwe Eric Laufenberg
Eliza Doolittle Mira Benser
Alfred P. Doolittle Michael Birnbaum
Colonel Pickering Uwe Kraus
Freddy Eynsford-Hill Björn Breckheimer
Mrs. Higgins Margit Schulte-Tigges
Mrs. Pearce Evelyn M. Faber
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill Petra Urban
Zoltan Karpathy Klaus Krückemeyer
Thomas Braun
Street Artists / Jugglers Anna Heldmaier, Ilka Ludwig, Stella Monogenis, Viktoria Reese, Rouven Pabst / Benjamin B. Geipel, Jan Diener
Chor, Chorsolist:innen & Statisterie des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden