The stage-play for a Baroque-Orchestra, two Sopranos and one actor is based on the real-life story of Jack Unterweger, a notorious womanizer and celebrated author and journalist, who was suspected of killing prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and Los Angeles; later vanished from Vienna, fled into the U.S., got arrested in Miami, transferred to Austria, accused and finally committed suicide after being convicted of homicide in eleven cases.
Part 1
The Infernal Comedy
Chapter 1
1 Einleitung and Ciacona, "L'Enfer" (music: Don Juan by C.W. Gluck)
2 Good evening ladies and gentlemen
Chapter 2
3 Ciacona (music: La Casc del Diavolo by L. Boccherini)
4 Excuse me for this interruption
Chapter 3
5 Let me tell you about my mother
6 Aria: Sposa son disprezzata (music: Ottone in Villa by A. Vivaldi) - I have always imagined my young and beautiful mother
Chapter 4
7 Women - they can really make me lose my mind
8 Vorrei spiegarvi oh Dio (music: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K. 418 by W.A. Mozart) - All of them were lonely and desolate
Chapter 5
9 Gentlemen, as I tell you, you have to listen to women
10 Ballo grazioso (music: Orfeo by C.W. Gluck) - When the newspapers started reporting
11 If we imagine, that I am the killer
12 Aria: Ah, perfido (music: Ah, perfido!, Op. 65 by L. Beethoven)
Chapter 6
13 Since I died, I keep on asking my self
14 Scene di Berenice: Berenice, che fai (music: Berenice, che fai, Hob.XXIVa:10 by J. Haydn)
Chapter 7
15 The old question - did I kill a woman
16 Aria: Ah se Edmundo fosse l'uccisor (music: Ah se Edmundo fosse l'uccisor by C.M. Weber)
Chapter 8
17 That is the power of genuine art. It reaches inside you
18 Aria e Cavatina: Ah, lo previdi! (music: Ah, lo previdi, K. 272 by W.A. Mozart)
19 Conclusion
20 End credits