Psychological opera suspense

“This is a work of musical drama at once dark and colourful. It takes place in a clinic: nothing other than a nightmare world for those who are there and for those who are watching the drama unfold. Baritone Mats Persson is the central figure as the king of fools and appears to have prepared the role with such commitment that by itself it contains an entire dramatic world [...] Carl Unander-Scharin’s partiture is rich in musical facets. He has a strong desire to characterise and his technique of working with stylistic jigsaw puzzle pieces can be compared with Ingvar Lidholm’s in Ett Drömspel [A Dream Play].”