Philosopher's Club

The novel that was the basis of this work parodied the mentality of the eighteenth-century philosophical Enlightenment. In the hands of a famous twentieth-century composer and conductor, the story still managed to retain its edge as a satire of our own times. We follow our hero and heroine through all manner of unlikely adventures as they search for pure happiness. (Spoiler alert: They never find it!) Although the operetta had a long and complex production history, luckily, the composer assembled and recorded a "final" version in 1989, and so everything was for the best after all…