Die Geisterinsel (2010)
(Prosperos Garten Act 1)

Die Geisterinsel is a reworking of a relatively unknown opera of the same title by Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg, a contemporary and champion of Mozart. The librettist was Wilhelm Friedrich Gotter who based his libretto on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Die Geisterinsel, a 50–minute chamber opera, focusses on the characters Prospero, Miranda, Fernando (or Ferdinand in Shakespeare’s play), Caliban and the Geisterchor (a choir of spirits that are native to the island). The opera consists of one–act divided into 13 scenes.