TheaterPur
Author: Klaus Wirbitzky
Genre: Comedy
Content
They were once the brightest stars in the theater sky over Bad Oelnitz: soprano Josephine Gönnerbach-Holl, “La Grande stupenda di Bad Oelnitz”, a master of the high-dramatic repertoire, made the hearts of subscribers and sensitive pianists quiver with her death arias. And her husband, conductor Viktor Gönnerbach, endowed with a special knack for the talent of young cellists, drove the Oelnitzer Symphony Orchestra to unprecedented heights. Their path could have led anywhere: Berlin, Vienna, Bayreuth – at least.
Today, fifty years, countless affairs and guest performances between Vlotho and Bad Oeynhausen, thirteen farewell concerts of Gönnerbach-Holl, and a dramatic fall into the orchestra pit later, only the bitter cynicism remains between wheelchair, support cushions, and a bottle of cognac from the big dream of the dressing room champions of yore. And the penetrating certainty that they have sabotaged each other's careers, yes: life! Neither the retired star soprano nor her maestro in the cardigan wants to think of divorce. But certainly of murder.
Here comes Xenia Nariczowa, a Polish caregiver of simple yet captivating beauty, into play. For who could more easily sink the liberating powder into the champagne of the wife, salt and poison the husband's mushroom dish unnoticed than the freshly hired caretaker? Xenia, however, who seemingly naively engages in the criminal dealings, has secretly her own criminal agenda: her crush, Kasimir Lubowski, is to be promoted from the third to the first concertmaster. For the murder-hungry artist couple, time is pressing; the golden wedding anniversary is approaching, the guest list is filled with former lovers, and the problem of annoying togetherness must finally be resolved...
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
