Opera in two acts, based on a 14th-century Chinese play and its European transformations at the hands of Voltaire, Goethe, and other Enlightenment dramatists. This is a new kind of multicultural music-theatre that is yet rooted in Eastern and Western traditions, and features a libretto in seven languages, a large orchestra of both conventional and electronic instruments, and a mixed cast with opera singers, speaker, mimes, chorus, and dancers.
Commissioned by THEATER ERFURT, Germany; World Premiere in November 2009