MEDIATHEK

This is the first opera ever based on Lessing's play "Emilia Galotti", which is one of the most well-known and most frequently performed plays in Germany. Theater Koblenz commissioned this work to be very practical to produce: it's for an orchestra in almost the same instrumentation as Mozart's "The Magic Flute", requires only 8 vocal soloists and is without chorus. Although this is a very standard size opera the possibilities of the human voices and of the orchestra have been pushed to extremes, creating a work which is and sounds highly original, other-worldly and bizarre rather than standard and classical. The characters in Lessing's original play are constantly under a lot of pressure which in the opera is accentuated by the music. The collaboration between composer and librettist has made this tragedy into a very compact opera in one act of 95 minutes without intermission.