German Premier

Inga Schäfer as Offred
Tickets Available at Theater Freiburg

Based on Margaret Atwood's successful dystopian novel THE HANDMAID'S TALE, the 1998 opera by Danish composer Poul Ruders tells the story of the maid Offred in the fictional, strictly patriarchal, Christian fundamentalist theocracy of Gilead.

In this military dictatorship, women are largely without rights. Many are enslaved and abused as handmaids to bear children to the ruling class of commanders and their infertile wives. The explosive material was filmed by Volker Schlöndorff and in a very successful series from 2017. The impressive opera is now being staged as a German premiere in Freiburg.