Monster's Paradise

Monster's Paradise is an opera by composer and librettist Olga Neuwirth, librettist Elfriede Jelinek, and director Tobias Kratzer. The opera premiered on 2 February 2026 at the Hamburg State Opera, Germany. The opera is written in Grand Guignol style, including satire and horror. One of the main characters is a gluttonous, insatiable President-King with a diaper and a golden necktie in an oval office. The main themes of the opera are the risk of the President-King ending the world, and actions to stop it from happening.

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