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During the French Revolution, Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins call for an end to the daily executions. Robespierre and Saint-Just decide they must be killed. Danton refuses to flee, is tried and guillotined with Camille, and Lucile is arrested after crying “Long live the king.”
The three-act opera adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, with a German libretto by the playwright.
Bank clerk Josef K. is arrested without being told the charge. As he encounters an opaque court system and tries to secure help, the trial increasingly overwhelms him; in the final scene, two men lead him to a quarry and kill him.
During the French Revolution, Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins call for an end to the daily executions. Robespierre and Saint-Just decide they must be killed. Danton refuses to flee, is tried and guillotined with Camille, and Lucile is arrested after crying “Long live the king.”
The three-act opera adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, with a German libretto by the playwright.
Bank clerk Josef K. is arrested without being told the charge. As he encounters an opaque court system and tries to secure help, the trial increasingly overwhelms him; in the final scene, two men lead him to a quarry and kill him.