My Fair Lady

In the organizer's words:

Musical by Frederick Loewe

Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and the film by Gabriel Pascal

London 1912: In front of the opera house, linguist Professor Higgins notices Eliza Doolittle, a flower seller, babbling away in a rough "Cockney" dialect. Fascinated and horrified, Higgins bets that he can turn Eliza into a "fine lady" in just a few months using his linguistic methods. She is to demonstrate her skills at the horse races in Ascot and at the diplomatic ball. However, the question remains as to who is "educating" whom. Because the emancipated Eliza also turns Higgins' life upside down.

In George Bernhard Shaw's dramatic original "Pygmalion", the object of love is a statue, whereas in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical, a person is shaped by their language. "My Fair Lady" won the Tony Award for "Best Musical" in 1956 and became world-famous in the film version with Audrey Hepburn. The whole world is also looking to Aachen in 2026 for the FEI World Equestrian Games (FEI World Championships). A fitting occasion for artistic director and director Elena Tzavara to celebrate this with the great musical classic "My Fair Lady" and the central Ascot scene on the Aachen stage.