Don Quichotte

Name: Don Quichotte
Start: 2026-10-31T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-31T21:20:00+01:00
Location: Innsbruck, Großes Haus

Saturday 31 October · 19:00Innsbruck, Großes Haus · tirol

What's it about?

Who doesn't know him: Don Quijote or, in French, Don Quichotte, the sad hero of La Mancha, who charges at windmills on an old farm horse to impress his beautiful Dulcinée, also known as Dulcinea? With his imaginative departure from reality, the knight is one of the most significant figures in literary history. Images, adaptations, and parodies of his character have persisted through the centuries. In Jules Massenet's opera, premiered in 1910 in Monte Carlo, Cervantes' crazy knight becomes a tragic hero who must break apart due to the harsh world. For Dulcinée, Quichotte embarks on a quest for a necklace that the lady supposedly had stolen by a band of robbers: a bad joke at the hero's expense. But thanks to imagination! Don Quichotte bravely fights giants and other hallucinations, converts the robbers, and even drives the invented pearl necklace. Despite all this, he is not heard by Dulcinée. His illusions continue...