Gormenghast

Immerse yourself in fantastic worlds and experience true borderline experiences in Gormenghast: This opera is set in a fascinating world between dream and reality, between fantasy and horror. The music combines a wide variety of styles, from grand opera to musicals and rock. And the production will expand the real stage action with virtual spaces and animations.

Mervyn Peake's (1911-1968) Gormenghast trilogy of novels about the events in an eerie and unsettling limbo world enjoys cult status and is considered by many literary connoisseurs and fans to be among the best that has been written in the fantasy genre. Composer Irmin Schmidt studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, among others, and achieved great popularity as the founder and mastermind of the legendary band Can.