My Fair Lady

Musical by Frederick Loewe.

Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and the film by Gabriel Pascal.

Performed in English with German surtitles.

London, 1912. Outside the opera house, phonetics professor Higgins notices flower girl Eliza Doolittle chattering away in rough Cockney. Fascinated and appalled in equal measure, he bets that he can transform Eliza into a "fine lady" within a few months using his linguistic methods. She is to prove her progress at the Ascot races and at a diplomatic ball. The real question, though, is who is educating whom - because the newly emancipated Eliza turns Higgins' own life upside down.

In George Bernard Shaw's original play "Pygmalion", the object of transformation is a statue; in the musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, it is a person shaped by language. "My Fair Lady" won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1956, and the film version starring Audrey Hepburn made it a worldwide phenomenon. In 2026, all eyes are on Aachen for the FEI World Championships. Director and stage director Elena Tzavara has seized on this as the perfect occasion to celebrate with the great musical classic "My Fair Lady", with its central Ascot scene, on the Aachen stage.