Small cause - big effect: In paradise, an apple was enough to plunge humanity into misfortune until Judgement Day. In 1972, the East German writer Peter Hacks surprised his audiences in both East and West Germany when he turned the biblical story of the fall of the first human couple into a comedy. It was his eye for the absurdities of existence, trained in everyday life in the GDR, that enabled him to reveal the humor in the story of the fall in linguistic virtuosity. At the same time, with his comedy Adam and Eve, he created a sharp-tongued plea for a concept of freedom that eludes all moral categories. Did Adam and Eve act rightly or wrongly? It doesn't matter - they acted. Mike Svoboda, composer and trombonist, American in Switzerland and a musical crossover between new music, jazz, performance and subtle humor, has so far concentrated as an opera composer on works for young and very young audiences. So trained in the combination of sophistication and lightness, Svoboda is predestined to set Hacks' paradisiacal comedy to music and demonstrate its topicality. Anne-May Krüger wrote the libretto for his music theater Adam and Eve. The composer himself conducts the hr Symphony Orchestra.

Adam and Eve

Rococo Theater

Music theatre in a prologue and three acts by Mike Svoboda (music) and Anne-May Krüger (libretto) based on Peter Hacks' comedy of the same name

Alexander York

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May 4, 2025

Adam and Eve · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 2, 2025

Adam und Eva · SWR Symphonieorchester

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