Today, many of them belong to the richest and most powerful people in this world, who - it seems - are worse off because of them than in the one they grew up in; in which the later-born will exceptionally not have it better. From interviews with people from this generation, the playwright Nina Segal and the director Ted Huffman developed a mosaic of a generation. The composer Philip Venables composes his first large-cast opera from it, featuring overwhelming orchestral sounds and intimate arias. From the key moments of individual life designs, Venables creates a collective collage, a interplay of the political and the private, that stages the social changes of the last decades. At the podium of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra stands the Polish-Lebanese conductor Bassem Akiki.

A commissioned work and a co-production of Dutch National Opera and Ruhrtriennale. With the permission of Opera Edition Ltd.