Echo 72. Israel in München

In the organizer's words:

Opera by Michael Wertmüller

A world premiere as an urgent warning against hatred and repression: The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich were supposed to be a sports festival in the name of peace. Instead, disaster struck and eleven Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists. The failure of the security forces and the way Germany's guilt was dealt with still have an impact today. In the new opera, the lightness of the play is mixed with anxiety and chaos. The production removes the event from its distance and shows us the ghosts of history in a visually stunning way.