In the 2025/26 season, Landestheater Coburg brings Johann Strauss' operetta A Night in Venice to the stage with verve, wit and the sound of a waltz. A turbulent game of mistaken identity unfolds amidst the foolish hustle and bustle of the lagoon city, delightfully blurring the boundaries between appearance and reality - a musical celebration full of charm, romance and tongue-in-cheek wit.
It's carnival time in Venice. The city is filled with masks and disguises, longings and illusions. Anything goes as long as the carnival reigns. In the colorful hustle and bustle of the lagoon city, Duke Urbino, a notorious playboy, stalks every skirt that crosses his path, sending the city's husbands into pure panic. But while the men try to protect their wives from the notorious seducer, the latter have long since made plans of their own - in defiance of all male dominance ...
Johann Strauss' Eine Nacht in Venedig is considered one of the Austrian composer's most popular works and is a cheerful, romantic comedy of mistaken identities full of trials and tribulations, languorous serenades and lively waltzes. The new arrangement of the work by Ernst Marischka and Erich Wolfgang Korngold in 1923 triggered a veritable Johann Strauss renaissance that continues to this day.
Premiere September 20
Further performances: September 24, 4, 5, 17, 19 and 25 October, November 16 and 20, December 2, 18, 27 and 31, 2025
