“My Fair Lady” is the story of the simple man who wants to surpass himself, learn and enjoy life. Equally, it is the story of one who has the ambition to use his book science to polish a human character and to endow him with what man must always have at hand: a chosen and neat speech, an infallible tool of self-knowledge.
If Pygmalion in Antiquity fell in love with his perfect statue, today’s Higgins sees his work talking, singing, dancing and getting caught up in the rules less game of love.
In fact, in “My Fair Lady”, the two protagonists’ approach and reject each other, hate and admire each other, exclude and approach each other in a permanent, “go come”, musical. Music accompanies, with its tutelary charm, this flight to perfection, to the ideal.
“1I worked with love and selflessness with the scenographer, conductors, choreographer, orchestra, ballet, chorus, master of lights, not to mention the soloists, to get as close as possible to everything that is human in this masterpiece.”
Ion Caramitru