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- Niels Marthinsen
Kongen af Himmelby (2009)
(The King of Utopiaville)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
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- SATB
- Bar.actor
- 50 min
- Libretto (Danish) by Georg Metz
- Danish
Programme Note
Cast:
The Queen of Honga-Tonga: singing actress
The Mayor: baritone
The Mailman: singing musician
The Policeman: singing musician
Synopsis:
The opera takes place on the remote tropical island of Honga-Tonga where a mayor from Europe is taking a much needed holiday as far away as possible from his home town Utopiaville. The mayor desperately needs to get away: He has overstepped his authority blatantly and broken every rule of law he felt like in order to create a modern liberalistic society where sanitation, medicare, hospitals, schools, the police, and all other public institutions are sold to private investors and then leased back by the public - that way none will ever have to pay taxes because everything finances itself, the mayor says, and in order to keep reality at a safe distance, he drinks massive amounts of insanely expensive french claret, all in the best interest of the inhabitants of Utopiaville, of course.
Honga Tonga can't get any further away from Waikiki Beach: It looks something like the 1933 version of King Kong, and the mayor's excessive entrepeneurism blossom: He is about to create a new Utopiaville.
The Queen of Honga-Tonga: singing actress
The Mayor: baritone
The Mailman: singing musician
The Policeman: singing musician
Synopsis:
The opera takes place on the remote tropical island of Honga-Tonga where a mayor from Europe is taking a much needed holiday as far away as possible from his home town Utopiaville. The mayor desperately needs to get away: He has overstepped his authority blatantly and broken every rule of law he felt like in order to create a modern liberalistic society where sanitation, medicare, hospitals, schools, the police, and all other public institutions are sold to private investors and then leased back by the public - that way none will ever have to pay taxes because everything finances itself, the mayor says, and in order to keep reality at a safe distance, he drinks massive amounts of insanely expensive french claret, all in the best interest of the inhabitants of Utopiaville, of course.
Honga Tonga can't get any further away from Waikiki Beach: It looks something like the 1933 version of King Kong, and the mayor's excessive entrepeneurism blossom: He is about to create a new Utopiaville.