IDIOT. Chamber opera on texts by Konrad Bayer

The main character “idiot” vegetates in isolation in his residential wellness-landscape, equipped with microwave, refrigerator and TV. Surfing through the television programmes, he lives out his erotic fantasies of violence and killing via the screen. Without warning, a couple breaks into his world: the sailor “bräutigall” and his lover “anonymphe.” While “bräutigall,” weary of love, plans his disappearance, the love-drunken “anonymphe” begs him to stay. Unmoved, “bräutigall” leaves her behind. “idiot,” confronted with the reality of real people, lets out his rage over the disturbance in a torrent of ranting and raving, and he succeeds in driving out the intruders and finally regaining the customary status quo: total inner and outer isolation.

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