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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.
After the governor casts the king into the forest as a child, he returns to claim his kingdom. The governor tricks him into returning to the forest, where he becomes a stag. The king eventually returns, the governor is killed, and the king regains human form.
An opera buffa with simultaneous ballet by Boris Blacher, based on the real-life Captain of Köpenick story and Carl Zuckmayer’s play. Heinz von Cramer wrote the libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
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.
After the governor casts the king into the forest as a child, he returns to claim his kingdom. The governor tricks him into returning to the forest, where he becomes a stag. The king eventually returns, the governor is killed, and the king regains human form.
An opera buffa with simultaneous ballet by Boris Blacher, based on the real-life Captain of Köpenick story and Carl Zuckmayer’s play. Heinz von Cramer wrote the libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.