Co-commission of Munich Biennale, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and KLANG Festival Kopenhagen
Premiered at the Muffathalle, Munich as part of the Münchener Biennale Festival Für Neues Musiktheater, 2026
Premiere recorded and broadcast by BR Klassik
Subsequent performances planned for Black box teater, Oslo as part of Ultima Oslo Contemporary Musical Festival, 2026

More money, more fame, more art, more life.

In search of “more” – of excess, of abundance – a Japanese composer encounters three ghostly nobles.

 They put his supposed longings to the test and confront him with what truly matters to him: his faith, his music, his culture, his father.

Between European opera, Japanese ghost story, anime, artificial intelligence, and autobiography, crypt_ weaves together
the tale of “Hoichi the Earless” into a deeply personal music theatre piece about ambition, identity, and the act of creation.