The young widow Selma has sworn off men, and together with her friends, founded the “Lose the Man” club. But a prank turns into confusion: who's marrying whom? Who's the man - and who's the woman? This entertaining operetta is an unknown gem from the pen of the man who wrote “The Merry Widow” and “Land des Smiles”.

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The Fool's Marriage

Musikalische Komödie

Berlin 2025: Leyla comes across the diary of her dying mother Zeina. We delve into the biography of the Syrian archaeologist who once researched Palmyra and the history of the ancient Queen Zenobia before she was forced by the war to leave Syria and seek refuge in Germany. Here her thoughts keep wandering back to her homeland. Above all, she is accompanied by the imagined presence of Zenobia, with whom she enters into an intimate dialogue. In her composition, Ronchetti combines fragments from Albinoni's Venetian opera of the same name with traditional Syrian music.

Stephan von Wedel

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Feb 8 - Mar 7, 2025

The Fool's Marriage · Oper Leipzig

Sep 28, 2024

Searching for Zenobia · Staatstheater Braunschweig

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