La Principessa sul pisello by Toch, Da (2021/2021), Diretto da Georg Heckel,, Direttore d'orchestra Mathias Mönius, Landestheater Detmold, Detmold, Germania

The king and queen are old and the prince is still without a bride. Then a girl appears and claims to be a princess. The prince falls in love immediately - but what if the stranger isn't a princess at all? It has to be put to the test, and what better way to do it than to put a pea between the mattresses of your bed? A real princess would feel that. And indeed: the princess cannot fall asleep and gets so angry that she yells at the whole court. Happy about her proven origin, she is welcomed by the Queen. The opera ends with a hymn: "Long live the princess, praised her behind!" With her astute musical wit, Toch's "The Princess and the Pea" is not only one of the most interesting fairy tale operas of the 20th century, but is still a demanding pleasure for young and old to this day.