I couldn't find the opera section so I'll just post this here. Here is a classic, I guess I wouldn't know, german opera about a british aristocrat guy who moves to town and eventually dresses a monkey up in peoples clothes and tricks people into believing this monkey is his son. Everyone tries to impress the monkey /son and excuse his bizarre behaviour and it's to illustrate typical nationalist sort of themes that everything from outside Germany is bad and will humilate you. Sort of the opposite of the current immigration debate in the US, instead of low skiled workers the invader is a snob.
These sound like spoilers but the twist there is in the plot description and in opera they tell you everything that is going to happen in the upcoming scene before it starts. I liked the young lord's pink satin outfit but liked the rival suitor guys Burberry's type red corderoy jacket too. No wonder the young woman played by Edith Mathis had a such a hard time choosing between them. He is more like a malfunctioning robot than a monkey and how did they teach him to talk much less sing? major plot hole but okay.
4/5 Opera IS an endurence test but I liked this despite it's reactionary sort of message. the previews are for much more current opera offereings and are decidedly more bizarre, including one that's a take on Alice in Wonderland wher Alice's head which looks like a disco ball comes off and is batted around by nightmare-ish paddle weiling weirdos. Another one features topless singers. ich bin ein Berliner!
