The Merry Wives of Windsor

Opera: Work details

Composer: Otto Nicolai
Librettist: Salomon Hermann Mosenthal
Work definition: Opera in three acts
Title notes: Also known as 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor'
Based on: Based on the play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' by William Shakespeare
Language: German
World premiere: 9 March 1849, Hofoper, Berlin
ROH premiere: 16 February 1907, Winter German Opera Syndicate