Rhapsody in Red

musical

librettp: Péter Kalmár
music: Péter Sipos

2002 – …

Once upon a time in the great Soviet Union, that the fearsome and powerful Stalin was with another feared dictator, Hitler, to redraw the map of the world together...
And in the end, how did it fail? Well that's what this musical is all about...

Our musical is not a historical tabloid that promises of the atrocities of a communist dictator, but is based on the bizarre idea that at a pivotal moment in history the Kremlin's clock tower was mistakenly controlled by a single actor one of the world's greatest powers...
The plot focuses on this exchange and its imagined antecedents, and its consequences.
And while the viewer gets a glimpse of the former Soviet dictatorship of the power machine of the former Soviet soviet dictatorship, it becomes clear that behind all 'big politics' lies, after all, somewhere - Cherchez la Famme!