The Good Person of Szechwan

What is actually more exhausting? Being a good person or always playing the villain? And doesn’t every person actually want to be good at first? But once again, the circumstances are not so. Shen Te must also learn this, as the more she tries to please everyone, the more her good-naturedness is exploited. Thus, she feels compelled to slip into the role of her ruthless cousin Shui Ta, who brusquely dismisses all petitioners. But can this be the solution to the problem?

It was Bertolt Brecht who explored this story in his parable The Good Person of Szechwan. Now, the composer Cong Su, who won an Oscar for his film score to Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematic hit The Last Emperor, has adapted Brecht's play for the opera stage. For the production of this world premiere, Brecht expert and former Linz theater director Stephan Suschke will return to the Landestheater.
In German with surtitles.