Intrigo internationale (K. 492)

Nowadays power depends on secrets and secrecy, on reconnaissance, disinformation and betrayal. Espionage and snooping are indispensable tools for governmental technology, the conduct of warfare and intelligence gathering. Intrigo internazionale (K. 492) deals with the topic of secret services and how their technologies penetrate into the private sphere – inspired by Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, in which all the characters are involved in private secret service work. Johannes Müller and Philine Rinnert from Berlin take a look at international intrigues and the hunt for a mysterious suitcase. Are the secret agents’ love affairs strictly business, or means to an end, to generate or suppress intelligence, to stabilize fronts or infiltrate them? The revelations keep getting more and more absurd, and everyone is at least a double agent on one side or both.

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