Opera

Der goldene Drache

Peter Eötvös

In the Thai-Chinese-Vietnamese fast food restaurant »Der goldene Drache« (»The Golden Dragon«), a motley group of individuals come together: two stewardesses, the old man Hans and his granddaughter as well as the owners of the restaurant, a Chinese family.

While the restaurant fills with cheerful talk and orders are taken for medium-spicy Pad Thai Gai and the Thai Soup No. Six, dramatic scenes are taking place in the tiny kitchen: A young Chinese without a resident’s permit has toothache but no health insurance. Amidst steaming woks, his fellow countrymen quickly pull out the rotten tooth, which sails through the air and lands in the Thai soup of one of the guests. Beginning as a wacky comedy, Peter Eötvös’s chamber opera from 2014 quickly turns bitter and even grotesque, linking the fates of various individuals by the device of a lost tooth.

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Music theatre
Libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig after the play of the same name, set to music by Peter Eötvös

Performed in German

Premiere
13. December 2019,

No further performances in the current season.

Premiere cast

Conductor Marie Jacquot, Petr Popelka
Lighting Design Marco Dietzel
Staging Barbora Horáková
Set and Costume Design Annemarie Bulla
Video Sergio Verde
Dramaturgy Bianca Heitzer, Kai Weßler
Der junge Mann (Ein junger Asiate, Die Kellnerin, Der Großvater, Die Grille, Die chinesische Tante) James Park, Beomjin Kim
Der Mann über sechzig (Ein alter Asiate, Der Freund der Enkeltochter, Der chinesischer Vater, Die dunkelbraune Stewardess) Ralf Rachbauer, Jürgen Müller
Die junge Frau (Der Kleine) Mariya Taniguchi
Die Frau über sechzig (Die alte Köchin, Die Enkeltochter, Die Ameise, Hans, Die chinesische Mutter) Karina Repova
Der Mann (Ein Asiate, Der chinesische Onkel, Die blonde Stewardess) Doğukan Kuran

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