The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera)

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Singspiel by Otto Nicolai
The composer in 1842
Translation	The Merry Wives of Windsor
Librettist	Salomon Hermann Mosenthal
Language	German
Based on	The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare
Premiere	9 March 1849 (1849-03-09) Königliches Opernhaus Berlin

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, or The Merry Wives of Windsor, is an 1849 opera in three acts by Otto Nicolai to a German libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal based on Shakespeare's play. Published as a comical-fantastical work in three acts with dance (komisch-phantastische Oper in 3 Akten mit Tanz), its structure is musical numbers linked by spoken dialogue, harkening back to the then-outmoded Singspiel format. It remains popular in Germany and Austria and its overture is sometimes heard in concert in other countries.