Christophorus oder Die Vision einer Oper

About the show

Composition student Anselm is assigned a string quartet based on St Christopher but decides to write an opera starring himself, his composer friend Christoph, and Christoph’s wife Lisa, whom Anselm loves. A year later, Christoph has left composition for family life, while Lisa is dissatisfied and attracted to Anselm. When Christoph discovers them together, he shoots and kills Lisa; he and Anselm flee. They reach a seedy nightclub, where a séance lets Christoph, under opium, try to contact Lisa. Anselm realizes he is losing control of his opera. In the epilogue, dream and reality blur; unable to finish, Anselm returns to music’s simplest form and begins the string quartet.