The birds: Opera by Walter Braunfels

Tycoons Ratefreund and Hoffegut see great potential profits in their utopian city of Cloud Cuckoo Land. Mobilizing the birds for their cause is a means to an end; their destruction by the gods is nothing more than collateral damage. Between ancient themes and late Romantic music, Walter Braunfels' opera hovers as a biting social critique over a realm between heaven and earth. Director Ersan Mondtag returns to Wiesbaden after the success of "Doubl...