It is, with the silver lake, A rare masterpiece and frankly unclassifiable that the Lorraine National Opera is showing: a little gem of black humor and the theater of Absurd. But it is also a spark of hope that almost was suffocated under the rubble of history. After the success of the Quat’Sous Opera, Kurt Weill embarked in 1932 in the composition of this opera which, Under the appearance of an improbable fable, knew better than none other to grasp the spirit of a poisoned era.