Journey to Planet 9 is a family opera that deals with the important issues of our time: The hurdles in contact and communication with foreign cultures, man's inconsiderate treatment of his environment and the need to put one's own wishes aside in order to act for and with each other instead.
Based on Jacques Offenbach's Journey to the Moon, librettist Paolo Madron and renowned composer Pierangelo Valtinoni have created an opera that is as whimsical as it is imaginative. The German version of the text was realized by Paula Fünfeck, who was most recently responsible for the libretto for the successful youth opera Mädchen in Not in Dortmund.
King Krax is tired of ruling the land of Abholzhausen. There are too many crises to deal with: Climate change, pandemics, inflation, wars. His cunning chief inventor, Megapfiffikuss, has persuaded the king that he can escape his worries by traveling into space. Lunatick, the king's daughter, is supposed to take care of the outstanding problems. However, she has no intention of taking on her father's thankless tasks and flies into space instead. The destination of their journey is the mysterious Planet 9, which, to everyone's surprise, is already inhabited by Ninurians. Communication between earthlings and aliens turns out to be a real problem. It doesn't help that Megapfiffikuss is also pursuing his own plans for power: The greatest treasure in the entire universe is said to be hidden on Planet 9, which Megapfiffikuss wants to win for himself at all costs ...
World premiere March 20, 2024
Further performances: April 21 and 22, May 26 and 27, 2024
