In the organizer's words:
Opera by Marc L. Vogler - Libretto by Daniel C. Schindler based on the play of the same name by Peter Jordan - In German - Ages 14 and up - World premiere/commissioned work by Oper Dortmund
Life is hard for Marie-Antoinette and her husband King Louis XVI: they have been imprisoned in the magnificent Palace of Versailles for almost 20 years, waiting to be beheaded. Outside their window, the people harass them incessantly with loud revolutionary slogans, their servants have dwindled to just one person and they haven't had a proper slice of cake for a long time. And although prominent figures from the French Revolution are constantly visiting unannounced, the execution is simply not progressing. So Louis XVI boldly worked on his own guillotine in secret. And what can we say - it works. After all, the royals have to kill time somehow in this entrenched situation; but they also have to escape the thought that they will no longer find a place in this new world that is loudly forming outside the window.
Peter Jordan's fast-paced comedy Marie-Antoinette oder Kuchen für alle! sheds light on the background to the French Revolution with black humor and an alternative history, shooting equally bitter arrows of time into our present day. In a turbulent mixture of Monty Python and Tarantino humor, slapstick and historical drama, Marc L. Vogler makes his debut as the new composer in residence at the Junge Oper Dortmund.
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