*A man and a woman. The woman is Ginevra. A day, idyllic.
The couple’s son has disappeared.
A fight breaks out.
(...)*

New production at the 'Opéra de Lille'.
Precise, lavish, rich in micro-details that constantly revitalise the listening experience, Wolfgang Mitterer's electronic sounds go perfectly with the narrative of an opera. After the slightly punkish treatment of Elizabethan theatre ("Massacre", inspired by the work of Christopher Marlowe, 2003), Mitterer joined forces with the Austrian writer Gerhild Steinbuch to create a post-apocalyptic fiction steeped in medieval legends.

In a world rent asunder by a dreadful melancholy, ruled by a King Arthur who has been rendered powerless, bewildered, some crazy redeemer has made all the children disappear... The only remaining child is the Queen's daughter, Marta, an ageless doll, whose hair is continually being combed by her mother. Within her glass cage, Marta is given over for the adoration of the people: the final vestige of a doomed world. Poised between sleep and fear, between lynching and fires, in the blinding glare of an irradiated world, death is spreading relentlessly.