Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis

The Emperor of Atlantis declares a war of all against all and proclaims that his old ally Death will spearhead the campaign Offended by the Emperors insolence Death refuses to let anyone die wreaking havoc throughout the world Der Kaiser von Atlantiss origin as the only surviving opera composed in a Nazi concentration camp elevates it to a unique memorial against forgetting Yet in the Deutsche Oper am Rheins production the parable of living death is never cautionary but ominous disturbingly comical and deeply human