“prince charming” via app?

Haven’t found love yet? The dating agency “traumprinz.com” could help luck. Or not. The search for a partner in the digital age is traced by an opera premiere in the Linz music theater (Blackbox): The music theater studio at the Linz Bruckner University is raising “prince charming” by Stiliana Popova-Kuritko on Thursday for everyone aged 12 and over from the baptism.

Librettist Julia Wieser has written Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales “The swineherd” about a princess who only loves, brought to the present day. “What can no longer replace an app? It’s not about showing that cell phones might be dangerous, it’s about thinking about how we treat each other, online, in the real world. What does that do to our relationships, our feelings, our personality?”, says Wieser. It is the declared concern of director Peter Pawlik “to meet young people where they live, with issues that have to do with them”this time social media and online dating: “We do not want to teach, but to hold up a friendly, loving and humorous mirror image to the young people”full “Irony, impertinence, comedy, exaggerated, craziness. The music be “totally modern, but you can still hear them.” It is the first opera by Stiliana Popova-Kuritko that the Bulgarian, who has lived in Linz since 2001, received an Anton Bruckner scholarship (2018) for “Woodwinds, Strings and Percussion” wrote, played by the Bruckner University chamber ensemble. (cash)

• There are still tickets: 17th, 3rd, 11 a.m., www.landestheater-linz.at, www.bruckneruni.at