Overview
- The premiere launches intendant Tobias Kratzer’s first season, with his staging presenting the new work as a marquee institutional statement.
- Composer Olga Neuwirth and Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek reunited for their first full music-theatre collaboration in over two decades, billed as a Grand Guignol Opéra.
- Critics praise the scale, theatrical flair and musical invention yet question the libretto’s sprawl, pacing and episodic construction.
- Neuwirth’s score blends orchestra, electronics and filmic and pop idioms, conducted by Titus Engel with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg.
- Georg Nigl leads the cast as the König‑Präsident, with Gorgonzilla voiced by Anna Clementi and portrayed by Vanessa Konzok, and Charlotte Rampling appearing on video as the Goddess.