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To relieve Queen Genia’s melancholy, the android engineer Trull builds machines that tell her stories. Their nested tales follow a supercomputer made for a king, a ruler lost in erotic dream cupboards, and a castaway who becomes an enemy of technology. The stories reflect on human existence and the limits of progress; in the finale, Trull kills his clone.
Lem’s multi-act satire attacks Stalinism and the Soviet cliché of ‘bowing before the West,’ using Soviet-sounding names and a figure of Joseph Stalin. The work was conceived at least in part as a puppet show.
Kris Kelvin arrives at a space station cut off from Earth, where an unfamiliar planet is bringing memories to life. The crew confronts figures from their past, including Kelvin’s dead lover, while trying to understand the intelligence beneath them.
An opera by Detlev Glanert and Reinhard Palm based on Stanisław Lem’s science-fiction novel Solaris. The entry does not describe the opera’s plot.
To relieve Queen Genia’s melancholy, the android engineer Trull builds machines that tell her stories. Their nested tales follow a supercomputer made for a king, a ruler lost in erotic dream cupboards, and a castaway who becomes an enemy of technology. The stories reflect on human existence and the limits of progress; in the finale, Trull kills his clone.
Lem’s multi-act satire attacks Stalinism and the Soviet cliché of ‘bowing before the West,’ using Soviet-sounding names and a figure of Joseph Stalin. The work was conceived at least in part as a puppet show.
Kris Kelvin arrives at a space station cut off from Earth, where an unfamiliar planet is bringing memories to life. The crew confronts figures from their past, including Kelvin’s dead lover, while trying to understand the intelligence beneath them.
An opera by Detlev Glanert and Reinhard Palm based on Stanisław Lem’s science-fiction novel Solaris. The entry does not describe the opera’s plot.