Die toten Augen

About the show

In biblical Jerusalem, the blind Myrtocle longs to see her husband Arcesius. Christ restores her sight and predicts that she will curse him before sunset. Myrtocle mistakes the handsome Roman captain Galba, who has long loved her, for her husband. Arcesius kills Galba; Myrtocle recognizes her husband’s suffering and blinds herself again by staring at the sun. A shepherd’s search for a lost lamb frames the drama.