Name: Sunday matinee in June
Start: 2026-06-07T11:30:00
Location: Staatstheater Mainz

Jiyoon Shin

Karolin Kosa

Laura von Schwanenflug

Anna-Catharina Nimczik

Staatstheater Mainz

What is good orchestral playing other than great chamber music? We are proud that the Philharmonic State Orchestra's chamber music series has been a fixture in our concert calendar for years, managed and brought to life each year anew by the passion of our musicians. Today, it is an integral and indispensable part of Mainz's musical life! With great attention to programming and musical detail , a wide variety of ensembles come together to perform for you.

Sunday matinee in June

Wine, women, and good food—life could be so simple. At least, if it were up to Sir John Falstaff, who is always on the lookout for new pleasures. But when the coffers are empty, the hunter becomes careless: Falstaff sends wooing letters to two married women, but makes the tactical error of making the letters identical except for the salutation. He doesn't expect the two women he's courting, Alice Ford and Meg Page, to be friends, which includes a conversation about the unexpected mail. As soon as the women discover the transparent scam, they start plotting to stop the supposed suitor. Especially since they can also use the opportunity to save Alice's daughter Nannetta from being married, at her father's request, to a man Nannetta can't stand. The only thing to watch out for is the jealous stalking of Ford's husband.

Falstaff

A young man trembles feverishly in his sleep amid the ruins of a dilapidated, isolated stable on the outskirts of a small town in Limerick. When he awakens, he sees the ghost of a woman comforting him with an old German melody...